4.9% ▼ -22.4%
Lower than 66% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 4.9%
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 0.7% of people use public transport to get to work in Inner Regional Australia, reflecting a heavy reliance on private cars. Most households here own multiple vehicles, and far fewer people work from home compared to the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common, with 37.7% of homes owning two vehicles and 14.4% owning three. Only 4.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is lower than most areas and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Inner Regional Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 67.5% of people. This reliance on cars is mirrored by the fact that only 8.5% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
8.5% ▲ +58.8%
Lower than 61% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -43.0%
Lower than 70% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.7%
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/RA31/inner-regional-australia/topic/transport