4.9% ▼ -67.5%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Onslow · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Onslow
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A small number of households without cars marks Onslow (L) as being around the middle for its level. Most residents rely on private transport, though a tiny fraction work from home, which is far below the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Onslow (L) has at least one motor vehicle, with 40.7% owning two. The share of homes without a car fell by 10 points since 2011 to reach 4.9%, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Onslow, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, but 5.2% use public transport, which is among the highest for similar areas. In contrast, only 3.5% of people work from home, a figure that is far below the Australian average.
3.5% ▼ -23.0%
Lower than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.2% ▲ +200.3%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 5.2%
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 Onslow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521040/onslow/topic/transport