3.1% ▼ -53.4%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ocean Shores · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Ocean Shores
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are the primary way people get around in Ocean Shores, where very few households get by without one. Only 3.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales average. This reliance on cars is reflected in the way residents travel for work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 40% owning two vehicles. This is part of a broader trend, as the share of car-free homes fell 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Ocean Shores splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has become much more common, rising 17 percentage points since 2011 to reach 20.9%. Very few people use public transport for work, which fell to just 0.2%, making the car the dominant choice for 55% of drivers.
20.9% ▲ +470.9%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -93.5%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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.
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 Ocean Shores [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115115/ocean-shores/topic/transport