0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 56.1%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Point Samson · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Point Samson
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes in Point Samson are without a motor vehicle, a figure that has plummeted 56 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area much more car-dependent than most similar places. While almost every household has a car, the way people get to work varies, with a small number now using public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of all homes have two vehicles, and 17.8% of households own three or more. This high level of ownership is reflected in the fact that no households in the area are without a motor vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Point Samson, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 1 vehicle is next at 28%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers drive themselves to work, while 4.2% walk and another 4.2% work from home, which is far below the national figure. Use of public transport has risen to 3.5% since 2011, a rate that is among the highest for similar areas.
4.2% ▼ -0.7%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.5% ▲ —
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.5%
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 Point Samson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522055/point-samson/topic/transport