7.4% ▼ -21.1%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sale · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Sale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people are working from home in Sale than in 2011, reflecting a shift in how the local workforce operates. While 9.3% of workers now operate from home, the area remains heavily reliant on cars for daily travel. Most households own at least one vehicle, and very few residents use public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most Sale homes have one or two vehicles, though 7.4% of households have no motor vehicle. This figure is much higher than in most similar areas, but it has fallen by 2.0 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Sale splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 65.6% of people driving themselves. Very few residents use public transport at 0.3%, while the proportion of people working from home has risen to 9.3%, which is still far below the national figure of 21.0%.
9.3% ▲ +214.5%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -45.3%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Sale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213013/sale/topic/transport