5.0% ▲ +32.4%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Shoalhaven Heads · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Shoalhaven Heads
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero people use public transport to get to work in Shoalhaven Heads, highlighting a complete reliance on other travel options. While most residents use cars, there has been a notable shift toward working from home in recent years. This makes the area quite different from the state and national trends.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 46.6% owning one and 34.8% owning two. Only 5% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but still well below the New South Wales average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Shoalhaven Heads, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 64.2% of residents. Working from home has become more common, rising to 14.1% since 2011, though this remains far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
14.1% ▲ +93.1%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Shoalhaven Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115125/shoalhaven-heads/topic/transport