6.1% ▲ —
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
St Marys · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in St Marys
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is the primary way people get around St Marys (L), where 58.4% of workers commute by car. While most homes own at least one vehicle, the number of households without a car has risen to 6.1% since 2011. This reliance on cars is reflected in the local work habits, with almost no one using public transport to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is higher than most similar areas and has risen since 2011. For those with cars, the most common setup is one vehicle per home, though 29.3% of households own two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In St Marys, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. While 7.2% of people work from home—an increase since 2011—this is far below the Australian average of 21%.
7.2% ▲ +67.5%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 St Marys [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622023/st-marys/topic/transport