7.9% ▼ -20.6%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ayr · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Ayr
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 69% of working residents in Ayr drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While most homes own at least one vehicle, the area has a higher rate of car-free households than most similar places. This reliance on private transport is reflected in the very low number of people working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.9% of homes in Ayr have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and slightly above the Queensland figure. Most households own one or two vehicles, though the number of car-free homes has fallen by 2.0 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Ayr splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here at 3.9%, a figure far below both the state and national averages. Meanwhile, the 2.8% of residents who use public transport to get to work is among the highest for similar areas, having risen since 2011.
3.9% ▲ +10.0%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.8% ▲ +85.8%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 2.8%
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 Ayr [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314002/ayr/topic/transport