7.2% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nhill · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Nhill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people rely on public transport to get to work in Nhill than in most similar areas. However, the town remains heavily dependent on cars, and very few residents work from home compared to the rest of the country. This reflects a local workforce where most people travel to a physical workplace.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Nhill have one or two cars, with 37.7% owning one and 36.5% owning two. About 7.2% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas but about the same as the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Nhill splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is a common choice for 10.2% of workers, while 66% drive themselves to work. Only 5% of people work from home, a figure that is far below the national rate of 21% and has barely changed since 2011.
5.0% ▼ -6.9%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -35.0%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Nhill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215064/nhill/topic/transport