Community Vitality Indicator

Households without Vehicles

The number of households that do not report having a vehicle kept at the home and available for use, expressed as a percentage of all households in the 8-county region. 

  • The US Census Bureau’s website provides data on the population of counties and localities within the Rochester area, further divided by number of personal vehicles. The data spans from 2020 to 2022.

13%

Yates County recorded the highest proportion of households without a vehicle among the counties in the 8-county region, standing at 13% in 2022.

23.4%

In 2022, the City of Rochester had the highest proportion of households without a vehicle compared to other areas within our region, standing at 23.4%.

Riga

In 2022, Riga had 83 households (4% of the population) with five vehicles, the highest percentage among all localities.

180%

The number of households without vehicles in Seneca County increased by 180% since 2010.

This infographic visualizes “Households without Vehicles” with a heat map featuring county and locality data from 2010 to 2023. The “Counties” tab displays an area map for our region’s counties, while the “Localities” tab showcases an icon map for specific localities. The scale ranges from 0% to 24% representing the population without vehicles.

At the county level, Monroe and Yates Counties have consistently been over 10% since 2010. Orleans, Seneca, and Genesee Counties have dropped below 10% from 2010 to 2022. 

Interestingly, the hotspots of households without vehicles are in localities outside of the more urban clustering. Other than the City of Rochester, where 23.4% of households do not have a vehicle, localities with more than 10% of households without vehicles include Webster (10.0%), Batavia (16.9%), Canandaigua (13.4%), Penn Yan (12.3%), Newark (13.8%), Geneva (15.7%), and Seneca Falls (14.0%). Medina dropped below 10% since 2010 (12.9% to 9.9% in 2022).

Note: Counties outside of Monroe County tend to have lower numbers reflected in Census data, which increases the margin of error. In other words, be wary of dramatic changes.

This Infographic for “Households without Vehicles” shows a stacked bar chart displaying data for the United States, New York State, Rochester suburbs, and the counties in our region. The data is stacked by the number of vehicles (0 to 5) in a household spanning from 2010 to 2023.

Pro Tip: If you hover over the number of vehicles in the legend, it highlights the relevant section.