Hill Top · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Hill Top

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

Only 2.3% of households in Hill Top have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales and national averages. This makes the area much more reliant on private cars than most other places. Very few people use public transport, while working from home has become more common.

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📍 Hill Top, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home here owns a car, with 41.9% having two vehicles and 12.4% owning four or more. The share of homes without a vehicle has fallen sharply since 2011, dropping from 10.5% to just 2.3%.

2.3% ▼ -78.5%

Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 10.5%
  • 2016: 6.5%
  • 2021: 2.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Hill Top, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, as 67.6% are car drivers. While 13.5% now work from home—a rise of 10 points since 2011—this is still far below the state figure of 31%.

13.5% ▲ +279.9%

Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.6%
  • 2016: 3.4%
  • 2021: 13.5%

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

0.8% ▲ +146.8%

Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.3%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.8%

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 Hill Top, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

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 Hill Top [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115080/hill-top/topic/transport