3.8% ▼ -66.1%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Harrington · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Harrington
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 3.8% of homes in Harrington have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This highlights a high reliance on cars for getting around. While more people now work from home, most residents still depend on private vehicles for their daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 46.1% having one and 38.5% having two. The proportion of homes without a vehicle has fallen since 2011 and is now much lower than the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Harrington, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (38%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 64.2% of people. Working from home has risen to 11.6% since 2011, though this remains far below the state average of 31.0%, while public transport use is very low at 0.4%.
11.6% ▲ +206.6%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -20.1%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Harrington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115077/harrington/topic/transport