Skennars Head · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Skennars Head

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.

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📍 Skennars Head, Urban Centre

Vehicles

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.

  • 2011: 1.7%
  • 2016: 7.3%
  • 2021: 3.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Skennars Head splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.

Getting to work

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.

  • 2011: 8.2%
  • 2016: 6.1%
  • 2021: 16.9%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.9%
  • 2016: 0.9%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Skennars Head, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 21%.

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 Skennars Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115126/skennars-head/topic/transport