6.9% ▼ -46.4%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brooms Head · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A decline in car-free households is the biggest shift in Brooms Head (L) since 2011. While nearly 13% of homes had no motor vehicle then, that figure fell to 6.9% by 2021. Most residents now rely on cars or work from home to get around.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost half of all homes in Brooms Head (L) have one vehicle, and 32.7% have two. While 6.9% of households have no car, this is much higher than in most similar areas.
6.9% ▼ -46.4%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Brooms Head, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and 4 or more (11%).
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, a figure that has fallen 4.7 points since 2011. Most people drive, though the 15.9% who work from home is much higher than in most similar areas.
15.9% ▲ +13.1%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
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 Brooms Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122027/brooms-head/topic/transport