2.8% ▼ -72.1%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Northampton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Northampton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 2.8% of homes in Northampton lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This reflects a strong reliance on cars for daily life, though a small number of people have recently shifted toward using public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 39.4% having two vehicles and 10.1% owning four or more. The number of homes without any vehicle has fallen sharply since 2011, and is now lower than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Northampton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the most common way to get to work for 60.9% of people. While 8.2% work from home, public transport use has risen to 5.6%, which is among the highest figures for areas of this size.
8.2% ▲ +78.7%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.6% ▲ —
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.6%
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 Northampton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521038/northampton/topic/transport