4.7% ▼ -45.2%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nelson Bay · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Nelson Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people work from home in Nelson Bay than in most similar areas, though the town remains heavily reliant on cars. Very few residents use public transport for their daily commute. This reflects a community where the vast majority of households own at least one vehicle to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 4.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households are well-equipped, with 80.2% of homes owning either one or two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Nelson Bay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (40%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen sharply to 19.1% since 2011, while only 0.7% of the workforce uses public transport. This is a little below the national figure of 3.1%, with 51.3% of residents driving themselves to work.
19.1% ▲ +1035.3%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▲ +18.8%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Nelson Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113012/nelson-bay/topic/transport