6.0% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Leeton · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 4.5% of people in Leeton work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. This low rate of remote work reflects a local economy where most people need to be physically present at their jobs. The town relies heavily on cars, with the vast majority of residents driving to work.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Leeton have at least one car, with 36.7% owning two vehicles. Only 6% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but still lower than the New South Wales average.
6.0% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Leeton splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 72.7% of people using a car as the driver. Very few residents use public transport (0.2%) or bikes (0.6%), and the number of people working from home has fallen since 2011.
4.5% ▼ -39.6%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -77.9%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Leeton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114016/leeton/topic/transport