6.5% ▲ +176.0%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Grantham · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Grantham
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Higher rates of households without a car mark Grantham (L) compared to most similar areas. While most residents rely on cars to get around, a small but steady number of people use public transport to reach their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most areas and rose by 4.1 percentage points since 2011. The most common arrangement is two vehicles per home, seen in 36.4% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Grantham, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 4 or more (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is among the highest for areas of this size at 3.3%, while only 3.3% of people work from home. This working-from-home rate is far below the national figure of 21% and has fallen since 2011.
3.3% ▼ -27.4%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.3% ▼ -3.3%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Grantham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322052/grantham/topic/transport