2.3% ▼ -75.4%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pottsville · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Pottsville
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes lack a car in Pottsville compared to the rest of the state. This reliance on private transport is clear, with the vast majority of residents using cars to get around or working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. This is a sharp drop from 2011, and nearly half of all households now own two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Pottsville, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 61.4% of residents, while 16.7% work from home. This work-from-home figure rose 14 points since 2011, though it remains well below the national figure of 21%.
16.7% ▲ +442.5%
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▲ +159.4%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.1%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Pottsville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114025/pottsville/topic/transport