6.4% ▲ +2.6%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nyah West · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Nyah West
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Public transport use has completely disappeared in Nyah West since 2011, leaving the community heavily reliant on cars. While most homes own at least one vehicle, an unusual 6.4% of households have no motor vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 74% of homes in the area have either one or two cars. A small number of households, 6.4%, do not own a motor vehicle, which is higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Nyah West splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the main way to get to work, with 85% of people driving or riding as passengers. Working from home is very uncommon at 4.6%, a figure that is far below the national rate of 21%.
4.6% ▼ -53.4%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 4.6%
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: 2.8%
- 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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Nyah West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221056/nyah-west/topic/transport