4.9% ▲ +345.8%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Picton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Picton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A shift towards working from home has defined the way people move in Picton over the last decade. While a quarter of the workforce now works from home, most residents still rely on cars to get around. Only 0.6% of workers use public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households in Picton own multiple cars, with 37.6% having two and 11.8% owning four or more. While 4.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, this figure is well below the New South Wales average of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Picton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged by 19 percentage points since 2011 to reach 25%, which is well above the national figure of 21%. This trend stands in contrast to public transport use, which fell to 0.6% and remains a little below the state and national averages.
25.0% ▲ +332.6%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -60.9%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Picton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115119/picton/topic/transport