3.6% ▲ +8.1%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Townsend · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Townsend
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 70% of workers in Townsend drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on cars. This is an area where few people use public transport and very few work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, and only 3.6% of households have no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4% and is a trend that has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Townsend splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (43%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Townsend uses public transport to get to work, and only 4% work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%. Most residents rely on cars, with 70.2% driving themselves and another 5.9% travelling as passengers.
4.0% ▲ +188.5%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 4.0%
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: 1.4%
- 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 Townsend [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121110/townsend/topic/transport