3.7% ▼ -32.2%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tea Gardens · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A shift toward working from home has shaped how people in Tea Gardens get around since 2011. The number of residents working from their own house rose by 12 percentage points over the decade, while car ownership remains high across the area.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes lack a car, with only 3.7% without one—a figure well below the national rate of 7.4%. Nearly half of all households own one vehicle, and 38.1% have two.
3.7% ▼ -32.2%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Tea Gardens, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 48%, followed by 2 vehicles (38%) and 3 vehicles (8%).
How people travel to work.
No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.1%. Instead, 55.2% of workers drive a car and 16.7% work from home.
16.7% ▲ +237.0%
Higher than 85% 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 Tea Gardens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115133/tea-gardens/topic/transport