3.8% ▼ -60.8%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kiama · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Kiama
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of the working population in Kiama drive themselves to work. Most households here own at least one motor vehicle, with only 3.8% of homes having none at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Kiama have at least one car, and 42.6% have two. The proportion of households without a vehicle is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2% and has fallen by 5.9 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kiama, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 27.1% of residents doing so—a figure that rose 23 percentage points since 2011. Very few people use public transport, as only 0.4% of workers take a train or bus, which is a little below the national figure.
27.1% ▲ +491.6%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Kiama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113007/kiama/topic/transport