Hanwood · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Hanwood

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

Far fewer people live without a car in Hanwood (L) than in the rest of the country. Only 2.1% of homes lack a motor vehicle, and this figure has fallen by over 9 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area much more reliant on private transport than typical Australian suburbs.

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📍 Hanwood, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own multiple cars, with 35.3% having two vehicles and 13.7% owning four or more. This high level of ownership is reflected in the fact that the share of homes without a car is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.

2.1% ▼ -81.3%

Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 11.2%
  • 2016: 7.8%
  • 2021: 2.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Hanwood splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (31%), with 3 vehicles at 18%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 80.2% of people being the driver. Only 2.2% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21% and represents a drop since 2011.

2.2% ▼ -67.8%

Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.7%
  • 2016: 6.6%
  • 2021: 2.2%

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

1.5% ▲ +53.3%

Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 1.5%

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 Hanwood, Car (driver) is the majority at 88%; Car (passenger) is next at 7%.

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 Hanwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121049/hanwood/topic/transport