2.9% ▲ —
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Seaham · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Seaham
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people in Seaham (L) get around without a car, making it a highly vehicle-dependent area. With only 2.9% of homes lacking a motor vehicle, it is much lower than the national figure of 7.4%. This reliance on private transport is reflected in how people travel for work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 81.2% of households owning two or more vehicles. Only 2.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Seaham, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (20%) and 4 or more (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes by public transport, a figure that has fallen 6.7 percentage points since 2011. While 13.8% of workers now work from home—which is much higher than in most similar areas—the majority of people still drive themselves to work.
13.8% ▲ +175.9%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 13.8%
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: 6.7%
- 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).
More for Seaham
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Seaham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122117/seaham/topic/transport