4.8% ▼ -20.8%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barmedman · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Barmedman relies on a car for daily life, as only 4.8% of households have no motor vehicle. This dependence on private transport is clear in the way people travel, with over half of the workforce driving themselves to work.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two vehicles, with 54.2% having one and 30.1% having two. The proportion of households without a car has fallen to 4.8%, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
4.8% ▼ -20.8%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Barmedman, 1 vehicle is the majority at 55%; 2 vehicles is next at 30%.
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. While 53.2% of workers drive, the number of people working from home rose 13 points since 2011 to reach 17.0%.
17.0% ▲ +339.1%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Barmedman [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122013/barmedman/topic/transport