2.1% ▼ -56.5%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Appin · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Appin
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people work from home in Appin than in most similar areas, with about 25.8% of workers doing so. This reliance on home-based work and private cars defines the local transport landscape, as very few residents use public transport to commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with only 2.1% of homes having no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. Most households own multiple cars, and 13.4% have four or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Appin, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 3 vehicles (20%) and 1 vehicle (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive to work, while 25.8% work from home, a figure that rose by 23 points since 2011. Very few people use public transport, with only 0.7% doing so, which is a little below the New South Wales average.
25.8% ▲ +949.6%
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -45.6%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Appin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115003/appin/topic/transport