Picton - West · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Picton - West

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

Working from home has surged in Picton - West (L), with 40.6% of people now doing so. This shift is part of a broader change in how people move, as car ownership has also grown and the number of homes without a vehicle has dropped to zero.

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📍 Picton - West, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in the area now has at least one motor vehicle, a drop of 14 percentage points since 2011. Most households are well equipped, with 40% owning two vehicles and nearly a quarter having four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 13.8%
  • 2016: 7.4%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Picton - West, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 4 or more (23%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 40.6% of people work from home, which is far above the national figure of 21%. This is the most common way to get to work, followed by 39.1% who drive themselves.

40.6% ▲ +381.5%

Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.4%
  • 2016: 8.4%
  • 2021: 40.6%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

2.0% ▲ —

Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 2.0%

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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Picton - West splits fairly evenly between Worked at home (50%) and Car (driver) (48%), with Train at 2%.

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 Picton - West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122111/picton-west/topic/transport