2.2% ▼ -55.7%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lake Cathie · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Lake Cathie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people are working from home than ever before in Lake Cathie, where the number of home-based workers rose by 9.1 percentage points since 2011. This shift occurs in a community where car ownership is very common and almost every household has at least one vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here go without a car, with only 2.2% having no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. Most households own two cars, making up 41.9% of the area.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lake Cathie splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (42%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive themselves to work (66.7%), and while 12.9% now work from home, this is far below the New South Wales figure. Public transport use is very low, with only 1.1% of workers using it to commute.
12.9% ▲ +238.7%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▼ -24.8%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Lake Cathie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115096/lake-cathie/topic/transport