2.9% ▼ -2.9%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gilgai · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Gilgai
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly every household in Gilgai depends on a car to get around. With only 2.9% of homes lacking a motor vehicle, car ownership is much higher here than across New South Wales or Australia. This heavy reliance on vehicles defines how people live and travel in the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 44.5% owning two vehicles and 18.2% having three. This high rate of ownership is consistent with the fact that far fewer households are without a vehicle compared to the state average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Gilgai, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 69.3% of people being the driver. Very few people work from home at 2.2%, which is far below the national figure, and no one uses public transport to commute.
2.2% ▼ -55.0%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Gilgai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122060/gilgai/topic/transport