3.4% ▲ +95.2%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Skennars Head · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of working residents in Skennars Head drive themselves to work. This is a car-reliant area where very few homes go without a vehicle and public transport is not used for commuting.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 3.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have one or two cars, though the proportion of homes without a vehicle has risen slightly since 2011.
3.4% ▲ +95.2%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Skennars Head splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, a figure well below the Australian average of 3.1%. While 16.9% of people work from home—which is much higher than most similar areas—this is still far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
16.9% ▲ +104.6%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Skennars Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115126/skennars-head/topic/transport