5.0% ▼ -31.1%
Lower than 57% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Inner Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Transport & Vehicles in Inner Regional Australia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 0.4% of people use public transport to get to work in Inner Regional Australia, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. Most households own at least one motor vehicle, and the number of homes without a car has fallen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 38% of homes have two vehicles and 35% have one. Only 5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Inner Regional Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 62.3% of people. While working from home rose to 14.1% since 2011, this is still well below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
14.1% ▲ +149.6%
Higher than 75% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -51.6%
Lower than 82% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA11/inner-regional-australia/topic/transport