4.1% ▲ +23.2%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bridgetown · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Bridgetown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people are working from home in Bridgetown than they were in 2011, though cars remain the dominant way to get around. This town is very dependent on private vehicles, with only 4.1% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This lack of car-free households is well below the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, while 7.2% have four or more. Very few households get by without a vehicle, and this 4.1% figure has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bridgetown splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 62.5% of people. While 7.1% now work from home, which is a rise of 3.5 points since 2011, public transport use is very low at just 0.8%.
7.1% ▲ +101.1%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -51.9%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Bridgetown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515003/bridgetown/topic/transport