South Golden Beach · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in South Golden Beach

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Over half of working residents in South Golden Beach drive themselves to work. This is a car-dependent area where almost every household owns a vehicle, and a quarter of the workforce now works from home.

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📍 South Golden Beach, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Very few homes here get by without a car, with only 1.1% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%, and the number has fallen by 3.1 percentage points since 2011.

1.1% ▼ -73.0%

Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.2%
  • 2016: 4.1%
  • 2021: 1.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In South Golden Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (12%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home has jumped 19 percentage points since 2011 to reach 25.2%, which is well above the national figure. Meanwhile, public transport use has plummeted to just 0.3%.

25.2% ▲ +305.6%

Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.2%
  • 2016: 3.2%
  • 2021: 25.2%

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

0.3% ▼ -97.6%

Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 11.9%
  • 2016: 0.9%
  • 2021: 0.3%

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 South Golden Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Worked at home is next at 30%.

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 South Golden Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115128/south-golden-beach/topic/transport