7.4% ▼ -16.7%
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Australia · Australia
Transport & Vehicles in Australia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge shift in work habits defines Australia's transport landscape, with 21% of the workforce now working from home. Most households rely heavily on cars, though the number of homes without a vehicle has fallen to 7.4%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most Australian homes have either one or two motor vehicles, with 36.8% owning two and 36.7% owning one. Meanwhile, the share of homes with no motor vehicle fell by 1.5 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the most common way to get to work at 52.7%, while working from home rose sharply by 17 percentage points since 2011 to reach 21%. This shift coincides with a decline in public transport use, which fell 4.3 percentage points to 3.1% over the same period.
21.0% ▲ +376.0%
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 21.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.1% ▼ -57.7%
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/aus/AUS/australia/topic/transport