Rainbow Flat · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Rainbow Flat

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

Nearly 74% of people in Rainbow Flat drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on cars. This is a place where almost every household owns a vehicle and public transport is not used for commuting.

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📍 Rainbow Flat, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national rate of 7.4%. Most households have two cars, while 16.9% own three and 7.8% have four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 2016: 2.4%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Rainbow Flat, 2 vehicles is the majority at 62%; 3 vehicles is next at 18%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Public transport use for work has fallen to 0.0% since 2011. While 14.3% of workers now work from home, this is still far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.

14.3% ▲ +114.3%

Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.7%
  • 2016: 8.1%
  • 2021: 14.3%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.9%
  • 2016: 2.6%
  • 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 Rainbow Flat, Car (driver) is the majority at 84%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

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 Rainbow Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122113/rainbow-flat/topic/transport