1.4% ▼ -80.1%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Buxton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Buxton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 64% of workers in Buxton drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars for daily travel. Very few people here get around without a vehicle, and those who do commute rarely use public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 1.4% of homes in Buxton have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average and has fallen since 2011. Most households own multiple cars, with 42.9% having two and 21.1% having three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Buxton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 3 vehicles (21%) and 1 vehicle (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Buxton uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the Australian figure. While 14.3% of the workforce now works from home—an increase since 2011—this remains far below the New South Wales average.
14.3% ▲ +55.1%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Buxton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115034/buxton/topic/transport