3.7% ▲ +33.4%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Newman · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Newman
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Most people in Newman rely on private cars to get around, with only 3.7% of homes without a motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Private transport is the dominant way of life here, especially for those heading to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 41% of homes in Newman have two vehicles, and 21% have three or more. Very few households lack a car, though the share of homes without one rose slightly since 2011 to 3.7%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Newman, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive themselves to work, while very few work from home at 2.2%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use has also dropped sharply, falling 18 points since 2011 to just 3.7%.
2.2% ▲ +180.1%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.7% ▼ -82.7%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 3.7%
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 Newman [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515028/newman/topic/transport