| How Singleton gets to work | ||||||||||||||||
| Some 9,250 of Singleton's people were in the workforce in 2001. Of these, 81% travelled to work (73% of women and 85% of men) while 6% worked at home and 18% stayed at home (unemployed or off work). The proportion working at home was much higher than across NSW; the rate amongst women was virtually the same as that of men. | ||||||||||||||||
| Around 1,045 people in the workforce did not attend work on Census day, representing 11% of the workforce (compared with 11% for NSW). About 321 people were unemployed, while the others may have been employed only part-time or having a day off. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of those travelling to work, the most common means were by car as driver (75% of the trips) and by car as passenger (10%). Compared with NSW, there were much larger proportions travelling by car as passenger and much smaller proportions travelling by train. | ||||||||||||||||
| Since 1996, the number travelling to work in Singleton increased by 2% while their overall travel patterns changed little. The number travelling by car increased by 3% with the number of drivers up by 6%. The number travelling by public transport (train, bus, ferry etc) fell by 49%, with travel by train up by 17%, albeit from small numbers. | ||||||||||||||||
| The proportion of workers using only their own effort to get to work was greater than NSW with 5.9% walking and 0.6% cycling, a total of 599 people. The number walking to work fell by 11% since 1996 while the number cycling fell by 43%. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Travel to work | no. of people | change from 1996 # | % of Sing'n's workforce | % of NSW |
Use
compared with NSW |
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| all | men | women | ||||||||||||||
| Travelled to work | 7,448 | up 2% | 81% | 85% | 73% | 82% | 2% lower | |||||||||
| Worked at home | 586 | down 0% | 6% | 5% | 9% | 5% | 23% higher | |||||||||
| Did not go to work | 1,045 | up 2% | 11% | 9% | 16% | 11% | 6% higher | |||||||||
| Not stated | 168 | same | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% higher | |||||||||
| Total workforce | 9,247 | up 2% | 100% | 100% | ||||||||||||
| Methods of travel * | no. trips * | % of trips | ||||||||||||||
| car as driver | 5,563 | up 6% | 60.2% | 59.9% | 60.6% | 54.1% | 11% higher | 74.6% | ||||||||
| car as passenger | 710 | down 17% | 7.7% | 8.0% | 7.1% | 6.1% | 25% higher | 9.5% | ||||||||
| taxi | nil | 0.3% | -- | |||||||||||||
| car | 6,273 | up 3% | 68% | 68% | 68% | 61% | 12% higher | 84% | ||||||||
| train | 14 | up 17% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 9.1% | 98% lower | 0.2% | ||||||||
| bus | 25 | down 62% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 5.3% | 95% lower | 0.3% | ||||||||
| ferry or tram | nil | 0.2% | -- | |||||||||||||
| public transport | 39 | down 49% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.5% | 14.7% | 97% lower | 0.5% | ||||||||
| motorbike or scooter | 100 | down 11% | 1.1% | 1.6% | 0.2% | 0.5% | 110% higher | 1.3% | ||||||||
| walking only | 548 | down 11% | 5.9% | 7.2% | 3.8% | 4.2% | 42% higher | 7.3% | ||||||||
| bicycle | 51 | down 43% | 0.6% | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.6% | 15% lower | 0.7% | ||||||||
| others * | 451 | 4.9% | 7% | 1% | 5.9% | 18% lower | 6.0% | |||||||||
| all others | 1,150 | up 3% | 12.4% | 16.7% | 5.5% | 11.3% | 10% higher | 15.4% | ||||||||
| * Some people used multiple methods including "others" and may be counted more than once in the lower table. This also makes "others" not comparable between 2001 and 1996. # 1996 categories differ slightly for multiple-mode trips. Tram includes 'light rail'. Major male-female differences are highlighted by shading the pair of results yellow. | ||||||||||||||||
| Vehicle ownership in Singleton | ||||||||||||||||
| There were some 12,700 registered motor vehicles owned or used by Singleton's people and parked at or near their homes on Census night 2001. This was an average of 1.7 vehicles per household or 0.80 vehicles for every person aged 18+. Vehicle ownership was greater than NSW, which had 1.5 vehicles per household or 0.67 vehicles for every adult. | ||||||||||||||||
| Vehicle ownership per household increased between 1996 and 2001 by 5%, compared with the rise of 6% for NSW, while ownership per adult went from an average of 0.74 to 0.80 over this period. | ||||||||||||||||
| Most commonly, households in Singleton had 2 vehicles, parked at 39% of households. Some 6.5% of households had no vehicles, a proportion which was half of NSW's car-less rate of 12%. Some 16% of households had three or more vehicles, which was three-sevenths larger than NSW's rate. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Number of vehicles at households | Sing'n's households | % h'holds in NSW | Sing'n's relative number | total vehicles | % of vehicles | |||||||||||
| number | change 1996–2001 | % of h'holds | Sing'n | NSW | ||||||||||||
| no vehicles | 456 | (up 15) | 7% | 12% | 45% fewer | |||||||||||
| 1 vehicle | 2,355 | (down 125) | 34% | 40% | 15% fewer | 2,355 | 19% | 28% | ||||||||
| 2 vehicles | 2,699 | (up 117) | 39% | 30% | 28% more | 5,398 | 42% | 43% | ||||||||
| 3+ vehicles | 1,089 | (up 271) | 16% | 11% | 44% more | 3,594 | 28% | 25% | ||||||||
| motorbike/s | 603 | n.a. | 9% | 4% | 131% more | 706 | 6% | 3.1% | ||||||||
| not stated | 388 | (up 30) | 6% | 7% | 24% fewer | 667 | 5% | |||||||||
| total | 6,987 | 12,720 | 100% | 100% | ||||||||||||
| Vehicles per household* | Sing'n | NSW | Sing'n's variation | Vehicles per adult* | Sing'n | NSW | Sing'n's variation | |||||||||
| 2001 | 1.72 | 1.47 | 17% higher | 2001 | 0.80 | 0.67 | 18% higher | |||||||||
| 1996 | 1.63 | 1.38 | 18% higher | 1996 | 0.74 | 0.64 | 16% higher | |||||||||
| change | up 5% | up 6% | change | up 7% | up 6% | |||||||||||
| Note: assumes 3.3 vehicles/dwg for 3+ vehicles in 2001 and 4
vehicles for 4+ in 1996; most households with motorbikes also have
vehicles; Bold italic percents were high compared with NSW, underlined italic percents were low. 'Adults' in lower table were aged 18+.* = not motorbikes |
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