1.9% ▲ +15.2%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Calala · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Calala
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 1.9% of households in Calala have no motor vehicle, making it an area where almost every home relies on a car. This heavy dependence on vehicles is clear in both the high number of cars per house and the very low use of public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least two vehicles, with 43.7% owning exactly two and 21.5% owning three or more. The proportion of homes without a car is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Calala, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 65.6% of people commuting as a driver. While 11.9% now work from home—a figure that rose 8.3 points since 2011—public transport use remains very low at just 0.2%.
11.9% ▲ +232.0%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -56.2%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Calala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115035/calala/topic/transport