1.0% ▼ -63.4%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 1.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pitt Town · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has surged by 26 percentage points since 2011 in Pitt Town, where nearly 30% of people now avoid a daily commute. This shift comes alongside a very high reliance on cars, with only 1% of homes lacking a motor vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every household owns a car, and most have multiple vehicles, with 83.6% of homes owning two or more. This is well below the national figure of 7.4% for homes without a vehicle.
1.0% ▼ -63.4%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Pitt Town, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 3 vehicles (20%) and 4 or more (20%).
How people travel to work.
About 29.8% of people work from home, which is well above the Australian figure of 21%. Only 0.7% of residents use public transport to get to work, a figure that has barely changed since 2011.
29.8% ▲ +753.5%
Higher than 98% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -2.4%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Pitt Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115120/pitt-town/topic/transport