5.7% —
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sorell · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Sorell
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A vast majority of Sorell households rely on cars, with nearly 80% of homes owning two or more vehicles. This dependence on private transport is reflected in the way people get to work, where over 70% of workers drive themselves.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, while 13.1% have three. Only 5.7% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen by 6.8 percentage points since 2016.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Sorell splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 5.1%. While 1.8% of people use public transport to get to work, this is much higher than in most similar areas.
5.1% —
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% —
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Sorell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615025/sorell/topic/transport