9.5% ▲ +46.8%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Waratah · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Waratah
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people are working from home in Waratah (L) than they did ten years ago, while more households now live without a car. The area has seen a shift in how residents get around, with 9.5% of homes now having no motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly one in ten homes here have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and rose 3.0 points since 2011. For those who do own cars, 43.2% of households have just one vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Waratah splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Car travel dominates the morning trip, with 61.1% of workers driving and 9.3% travelling as passengers. No one here uses public transport or works from home, which is far below the national figure.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Waratah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622026/waratah/topic/transport