2.6% ▼ -72.6%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sharon · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Sharon
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 73% of workers in Sharon drive themselves to work, reflecting a community that relies heavily on private cars. Very few households get by without a vehicle, and almost no one uses public transport to commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. This is a significant drop from 2011, when 9.5% of households were without a car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sharon, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, and the 7.9% who work from home is far below the national figure. Most people rely on cars, with 72.9% driving and another 9% travelling as passengers.
7.9% ▲ +42.4%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 7.9%
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: 0.0%
- 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 Sharon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321093/sharon/topic/transport