2.0% ▼ -78.0%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gisborne · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Gisborne
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has surged by 21 percentage points since 2011 in Gisborne, where 24.1% of people now do their jobs from home. This shift toward remote work sits alongside a very high reliance on cars, with only 2.0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Gisborne has a car, a figure that is well below the national average of 7.4%. Most households own at least two vehicles, with 46.2% having two and another 10.8% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Gisborne, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of the workforce (54.3%) drives to work, while 24.1% work from home, which is well above the Australian figure of 21.0%. Very few people use public transport, with only 0.9% doing so, a trend that has barely changed over the last decade.
24.1% ▲ +721.2%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Gisborne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213006/gisborne/topic/transport