0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Paterson · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Paterson
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Paterson (L) now has a motor vehicle, meaning residents rely almost entirely on cars to get around. This total shift from 2011 makes the area much more car-dependent than the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least two cars, with 45.1% owning two and 15.8% owning three. The share of households without a vehicle has plummeted 15 points since 2011 to 0.0%, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Paterson, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has become far more common, rising 17 points since 2011 to reach 23.5%. While 51.4% of workers drive to their jobs, no one in the area uses public transport to commute.
23.5% ▲ +282.1%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 23.5%
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 Paterson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122107/paterson/topic/transport