1.9% ▲ +10.9%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lawrence · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Lawrence
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes live without a car in Lawrence than in the rest of the country. Only 1.9% of households lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure. This high reliance on private transport shapes how people move through the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households are well-equipped for travel, with 46.5% owning two vehicles and 13.5% owning three. This explains why the proportion of homes with no car is much lower than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lawrence, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 61.4% of residents. While 9.7% of people now work from home—a rise since 2011—this is still far below the New South Wales figure.
9.7% ▲ +31.9%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▲ +29.6%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Lawrence [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121065/lawrence/topic/transport