2.1% ▲ +81.2%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bluewater · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Bluewater
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Bluewater, where only 2.1% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%, reflecting a community that relies heavily on its own transport to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 44% owning two vehicles and another 12.4% owning four or more. Very few homes are without a car, although this number rose slightly since 2011 to 2.1%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bluewater, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The vast majority of workers drive to work, with 69.3% as the driver. Only 4.9% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%, and just 1.3% use public transport.
4.9% ▲ +116.5%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▲ +15.5%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Bluewater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321018/bluewater/topic/transport