1.3% ▼ -83.1%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Paxton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Paxton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has surged in Paxton since 2011, with the number of homes without a vehicle dropping by 6.4 percentage points. Almost every household now owns a car, reflecting a strong reliance on private transport for the local community.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 1.3% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most residents have multiple cars, with 38.5% of households owning two vehicles and 19.4% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Paxton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 65.4% of residents. While 10.7% of people work from home—a figure that rose 3.3 percentage points since 2011—this is still far below the national figure of 21%.
10.7% ▲ +44.9%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▲ —
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Paxton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121093/paxton/topic/transport