7.9% ▼ -51.0%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lightning Ridge · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Lightning Ridge
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Much higher rates of public transport use for work than similar areas mark Lightning Ridge, though the town remains heavily reliant on cars. While 7.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, this is a big drop from the 16.1% recorded in 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 8% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. However, the majority of households own at least one car, with 44.2% owning one and 33.9% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lightning Ridge, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 57.8% as the driver, while 10.5% walk. Only 7.1% of workers stay at home, a figure that is far below the national average of 21%.
7.1% ▲ +26.8%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▲ +45.8%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Lightning Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115098/lightning-ridge/topic/transport