6.3% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Smoky Bay · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Smoky Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Smoky Bay than across the rest of the country. While 21% of Australians work from home, only 3.8% do so here, reflecting a local workforce that largely relies on physical travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 44.4% owning two and 25.4% owning three. About 6.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is higher than most similar areas and has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Smoky Bay, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 3 vehicles (25%) and 1 vehicle (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is dominated by cars, which 67.5% of workers use as drivers. Public transport is not used at all here, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.
3.8% ▲ +6.3%
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 3.8%
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 Smoky Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422047/smoky-bay/topic/transport