3.4% ▼ -72.7%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Exeter · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Exeter
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one in Exeter uses public transport to get to work, with 0.0% doing so in 2021. This highlights a heavy reliance on cars for daily travel in the area. Most households now own at least one vehicle, and those working from home have become more common over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high here, with 38.7% of homes having two vehicles and 17.8% having three. Only 3.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen 9.0 percentage points since 2011 and is well below the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Exeter, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get around, as 70.2% of workers are car drivers. While 8.8% of people now work from home—up 7.3 percentage points since 2011—this is still far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
8.8% ▲ +496.3%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Exeter [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615007/exeter/topic/transport