Nowra Hill · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Nowra Hill

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

Far fewer households go without a car in Nowra Hill than in the rest of the country. This is a highly car-dependent area where almost every home owns at least one vehicle, and many own several.

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📍 Nowra Hill, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 1.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households are heavily equipped for travel, with 33.2% owning four or more vehicles.

1.5% ▼ -31.7%

Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.3%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 1.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Nowra Hill splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (33%) and 2 vehicles (32%), with 3 vehicles at 20%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. While the number of people working from home rose to 11.2% since 2011, most residents still rely on cars, with 67.2% driving themselves to work.

11.2% ▲ +160.2%

Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.3%
  • 2016: 4.5%
  • 2021: 11.2%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Nowra Hill, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; 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 Nowra Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121090/nowra-hill/topic/transport