Greta · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Greta

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Fewer homes in Greta are without a car than they were in 2011, with only 3% of households now lacking a vehicle. This shift toward car ownership is reflected in the way people travel, as the vast majority of workers rely on driving to get to their jobs.

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📍 Greta, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households have at least one car, and 40.1% own two. The proportion of homes with no motor vehicle is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2% and has fallen by 5.1 percentage points since 2011.

3.0% ▼ -63.1%

Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.0%
  • 2016: 0.6%
  • 2021: 3.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Greta, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 65.7% of people as the driver. Only 9.4% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and public transport use is very low at 0.2%.

9.4% ▲ +73.7%

Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.4%
  • 2016: 6.1%
  • 2021: 9.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.2% ▲ —

Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.5%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Greta, Car (driver) is the majority at 82%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

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 Greta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115070/greta/topic/transport