12.3% ▲ +1.9%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lithgow · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Lithgow
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A high number of car-free households shapes daily travel in Lithgow, where 12.3% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well above the national figure and reflects a local reality where many people rely on alternatives to driving for their daily needs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 12.3% of homes have no car, which is much higher than most similar areas and well above the New South Wales figure. Most households do have transport, with 43.5% owning one vehicle and 29.3% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lithgow, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and No vehicle (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers drive to work, with 63.5% as the driver, while 9.7% work from home. Although the share of people working from home rose by 6.3 points since 2011, this figure remains far below the national average.
9.7% ▲ +188.9%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -35.5%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Lithgow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113008/lithgow/topic/transport