Thrumster · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Thrumster

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

Only 0.7% of households in Thrumster have no motor vehicle, making it an area where car ownership is far more common than in most other places. This high reliance on cars shapes how people move around and get to work.

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📍 Thrumster, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost half of all homes have two vehicles, and only 0.7% of households are without a car. This figure has fallen by 3.1 percentage points since 2011 and is well below the national average of 7.4%.

0.7% ▼ -81.5%

Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.8%
  • 2016: 3.2%
  • 2021: 0.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Thrumster, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (12%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most workers rely on cars, with 69.7% driving to work and 11.4% working from home. Very few people use public transport, and the 0.3% who do is a little below the New South Wales figure.

11.4% ▲ +305.8%

Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.8%
  • 2016: 5.7%
  • 2021: 11.4%

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

0.3% ▼ -83.1%

Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.7%
  • 2016: 0.4%
  • 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 Thrumster, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

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 Thrumster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115138/thrumster/topic/transport