Pitt Town · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Pitt Town

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.

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📍 Pitt Town, Urban Centre

Vehicles

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.

  • 2011: 2.7%
  • 2016: 6.0%
  • 2021: 1.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Pitt Town, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 3 vehicles (20%) and 4 or more (20%).

Getting to work

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.

  • 2011: 3.5%
  • 2016: 3.7%
  • 2021: 29.8%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.7% ▼ -2.4%

Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.8%
  • 2016: 0.3%
  • 2021: 0.7%

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.

How people get to work

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In Pitt Town, Car (driver) is the majority at 59%; Worked at home is next at 36%.

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 Pitt Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115120/pitt-town/topic/transport