4.2% ▲ +175.8%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Thirlmere · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Thirlmere
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has surged in Thirlmere, jumping 17 percentage points since 2011. This shift reflects a broader move away from traditional travel, as 20.7% of the workforce now operates from their own residence. Most residents rely on private cars to get around, while public transport use remains very low.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households go without a car here, with only 4.2% having no motor vehicle—well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most homes own multiple cars, and 37.6% of households have two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Thirlmere, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the dominant way to get to work, with 55.9% of people driving. Public transport use is very low and has fallen since 2011, with only 0.2% of workers using it, which is a little below the New South Wales average.
20.7% ▲ +541.4%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -85.4%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Thirlmere [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115137/thirlmere/topic/transport