4.2% ▲ —
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Waterfall · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Waterfall
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of all workers in Waterfall drive themselves to work. While car travel is the most common choice, the area has seen a huge shift toward flexible arrangements, with the number of people working from home jumping by 24 percentage points since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 36.5% have two. Only 4.2% of households get by without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Waterfall, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 27.9% of residents doing so, which is well above the national figure. Public transport use for work is also among the highest for similar areas at 6.6%, a significant increase from 2011.
27.9% ▲ +560.5%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 27.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.6% ▲ —
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 6.6%
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 Waterfall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121118/waterfall/topic/transport