Swan Reach · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Swan Reach

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.

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📍 Swan Reach, Urban Centre

Vehicles

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.

  • 2011: 2.3%
  • 2016: 1.7%
  • 2021: 6.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Swan Reach, 1 vehicle is the majority at 54%; 2 vehicles is next at 31%.

Getting to work

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.

  • 2011: 7.7%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 8.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Swan Reach, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Walked is next at 17%.

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 Swan Reach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422053/swan-reach/topic/transport