4.1% ▲ —
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
The Rock · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in The Rock
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A small number of households in The Rock (L) now live without a car, reflecting a shift since 2011 when every home had at least one vehicle. While vehicle ownership remains very high, almost no one uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Far fewer homes here lack a car compared to the national figure, though the number of vehicle-free households rose to 4.1% since 2011. Most residents have multiple cars, with 41.7% of homes owning two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In The Rock, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 73.4% of people, while 0.0% use public transport. Only 6.8% of workers stay at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%.
6.8% ▲ +15.3%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 6.8%
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.
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 The Rock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121107/the-rock/topic/transport