Sutton · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Sutton

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

Three quarters of working residents in Sutton (L) drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Very few households get by without a car, and almost no one uses public transport for their daily commute.

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📍 Sutton, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have multiple cars, with 53.5% owning two and 30.2% owning three or more. Only 3.5% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below both the New South Wales and national numbers.

3.5% ▲ +12.3%

Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.1%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Sutton, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 1 vehicle is next at 16%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, while 10.9% of people work from home, a figure that has risen since 2011. No one in the area uses buses or trains to commute, which is well below the national figure.

10.9% ▲ +81.1%

Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 10.9%

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.

How people get to work

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In Sutton, Car (driver) is the majority at 84%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

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 Sutton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122124/sutton/topic/transport