4.9% ▲ +22.2%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Batlow · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More homes in Batlow now lack a motor vehicle than they did in 2011, though the town remains heavily reliant on cars. Most households own one or two vehicles, while public transport is not used for commuting.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 4.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households are well-equipped, with 38.5% owning one vehicle and 36.8% owning two.
4.9% ▲ +22.2%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Batlow splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
How people travel to work.
Car travel is the dominant way to get to work for 70.2% of people, and 0.0% use public transport. Only 4.5% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
4.5% ▲ +29.8%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% 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 Batlow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115012/batlow/topic/transport