3.8% ▲ +38.5%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Palmwoods · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Palmwoods
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people in Palmwoods are working from home and owning fewer cars than they were in 2011. This shift is seen in the 12.8% of workers who now operate from their own residence, while car reliance remains the dominant way to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 40.9% owning two vehicles. Only 3.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Palmwoods, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 66% of residents. Very few people use public transport, with only 0.8% doing so, though this is still higher than in most similar areas.
12.8% ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▲ +31.5%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Palmwoods [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314019/palmwoods/topic/transport