5.2% ▲ +119.9%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Macarthur · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Macarthur
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Macarthur compared to the rest of the state. While most residents rely on cars, there is a small but growing number of households without any motor vehicle, which rose to 5.2% in 2021.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, though 5.2% of households have no vehicle at all. This figure is higher than in most similar areas, despite being a little below the Victorian average of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Macarthur splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 61.2% of residents, while 13.4% walk. Very few people work from home at 7.5%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and no one uses public transport.
7.5% ▲ +8.2%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 7.5%
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: 1.5%
- 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 Macarthur [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222047/macarthur/topic/transport