7.9% ▼ -34.3%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Grenfell · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Grenfell
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More homes lack a car in Grenfell than in most similar areas. While 7.9% of households have no motor vehicle, the town relies heavily on driving for work, as public transport use has effectively vanished.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The number of homes without a vehicle has fallen since 2011, but it remains much higher than in most similar areas. Most households have one or two cars, with 41.3% owning one and 32.1% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Grenfell, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way people get to work, with 63.8% as the driver and 6.5% as a passenger. Only 6.2% work from home, which is far below the national figure, and no one uses public transport.
6.2% ▲ +33.2%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 6.2%
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: 0.6%
- 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 Grenfell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115069/grenfell/topic/transport