Exeter · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Exeter

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

A huge 29% of workers in Exeter now work from home, a figure that has jumped 26 percentage points since 2011. This shift to remote work is seen alongside a very high reliance on cars, with almost every household owning at least one vehicle.

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📍 Exeter, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 1.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households are well equipped, with nearly half owning two vehicles.

1.7% ▲ —

Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 1.8%
  • 2021: 1.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Exeter, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 1 vehicle (35%) and 3 vehicles (9%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Not a single person uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. Instead, nearly half of the workforce drive their own car, while 29% work from home.

29.0% ▲ +1011.4%

Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 13.0%
  • 2021: 29.0%

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: 1.6%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Exeter, Car (driver) is the majority at 58%; Worked at home is next at 34%.

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 Exeter [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122055/exeter/topic/transport