Cherbourg · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Cherbourg

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Much higher rates of carless households than most similar areas define transport in Cherbourg. Around 38.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure of 7.4%.

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📍 Cherbourg, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Nearly 38.3% of homes have no car, though this is 5.6 percentage points lower than in 2011. Only 20.1% of households have two vehicles, and none have four or more.

38.3% ▼ -12.8%

Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 43.9%
  • 2016: 3.9%
  • 2021: 38.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Cherbourg splits fairly evenly between No vehicle (39%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 2 vehicles at 20%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Walking to work is common here at 21.6%, while no one uses public transport or works from home. This is far below the national figure for working from home, which sits at 21.0%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.5%
  • 2016: 3.2%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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: 2.5%
  • 2016: 1.4%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Cherbourg, Car (driver) is the majority at 64%; Walked is next at 24%.

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 Cherbourg [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315018/cherbourg/topic/transport