2.2% ▼ -8.1%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Helensburgh · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Helensburgh
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 12 percentage point gap separates Helensburgh from the national figure for working from home. This reflects a community where car ownership is very high and remote work has surged. Roughly one third of the local workforce now avoids a daily commute entirely.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with only 2.2% of homes lacking a motor vehicle—a figure well below the New South Wales and national rates. Most households own at least two vehicles, and 10.1% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Helensburgh, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has jumped 25 points since 2011 to reach 32.5%, which is among the highest for similar areas. While 43.1% of workers drive, those using public transport now make up 1.8% of the workforce.
32.5% ▲ +362.6%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 32.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% ▲ +212.2%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Helensburgh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114014/helensburgh/topic/transport