7.1% ▲ +189.9%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ashford · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Ashford
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes in Ashford (L) lack a motor vehicle compared to most similar areas. While car use is the norm for the majority, about 7% of households get by without one, a figure that has risen steadily over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The typical home has one or two cars, but 7.1% of households have no vehicle at all. This is much higher than in most similar areas, although it remains a little below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ashford, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost no one uses public transport to get to work, and only 5.4% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Most residents drive, with 56.2% as the driver and 10.8% walking to their jobs.
5.4% ▲ +160.3%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.4%
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 Ashford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122007/ashford/topic/transport