6.0% ▲ +156.0%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Swan Reach · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is the primary way to get around Swan Reach, where 68% of workers use a car to reach their jobs. Most households rely on their own transport, though a small number of homes have no motor vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Over half of homes have one vehicle, and 30% have two. The proportion of households without a car rose 3.7 points since 2011 to reach 6.0%, which is a little below the state and national figures.
6.0% ▲ +156.0%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Swan Reach, 1 vehicle is the majority at 54%; 2 vehicles is next at 31%.
How people travel to work.
Walking to work is common here at 16%, while 8% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, a trend that has barely changed since 2011.
8.0% ▲ +4.5%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Swan Reach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422053/swan-reach/topic/transport