7.6% ▼ -87.5%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 60.8%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
El Arish · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in El Arish
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 53 percentage point drop in carless homes defines the recent transport shift in El Arish. While most households now own at least one vehicle, the area remains very dependent on cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. Most residents own one or two cars, though this figure has fallen sharply since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →El Arish splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 81.3% of people, while 5.5% work from home. This is far below the national figure for working from home, and no one uses public transport.
5.5% ▲ —
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 5.5%
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: 5.7%
- 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 El Arish [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322039/el-arish/topic/transport