4.2% ▼ -28.8%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Swansea · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Swansea
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Swansea (L) sits around the middle of similar areas for its transport patterns. Most people rely on their own cars, and the town has seen a total shift away from public transport for commuting. The most striking trend is the rise in people working from home, which jumped 7.2 percentage points since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 45% of homes owning two vehicles. Only 4.2% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Swansea, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (38%) and 3 vehicles (7%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. While 53.6% of workers drive, another 12.6% walk, and 8.8% work from home—a rate far below the Australian average.
8.8% ▲ +451.6%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 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: 1.3%
- 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 Swansea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621030/swansea/topic/transport