Safety Beach · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Safety Beach

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

Far fewer people live without a car in Safety Beach than in the rest of Australia. Almost every home here relies on a vehicle, with nearly half of all households owning two cars to get around.

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📍 Safety Beach, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 2.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average and has fallen since 2011. Most residents own multiple cars, with 14.4% of homes having three and 7.9% having four or more.

2.3% ▼ -67.8%

Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 7.2%
  • 2016: 1.4%
  • 2021: 2.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Safety Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (14%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, as 0.0% of people use public transport, which is well below the national figure. While working from home rose to 11.2% since 2011, this remains far below the New South Wales average.

11.2% ▲ +245.8%

Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.3%
  • 2016: 6.5%
  • 2021: 11.2%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.2%
  • 2016: 0.8%
  • 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 Safety Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; 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 Safety Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121100/safety-beach/topic/transport