6.7% ▼ -32.2%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Evans Head · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Evans Head
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one uses public transport to get to work in Evans Head, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. While more people now work from home, the area remains far more dependent on vehicles than the state or national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 79% of homes have one or two motor vehicles, and the share of households without a car has fallen since 2011 to 6.7%. This is a little below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Evans Head, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Evans Head commutes by public transport, and 59.3% of workers drive themselves to work. While 11.6% now work from home—a rise of 7.6 points since 2011—this is still far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
11.6% ▲ +195.2%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 11.6%
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: 1.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Evans Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115057/evans-head/topic/transport