7.8% ▼ -20.9%
Higher than 74% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Major Cities of Australia · Remoteness Area
Transport & Vehicles in Major Cities of Australia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 63% of people in Major Cities of Australia drive themselves to work. This region shows a strong reliance on cars, though public transport use is much higher here than in most other areas. While more people are working from home than they did in 2011, the overall trend remains car-heavy.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, while 7.8% of households have no motor vehicle. This lack of a car is higher than in most areas, though it has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Major Cities of Australia splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use is much higher than in most areas at 5.0%, though this has fallen since 2011. Meanwhile, 9.7% of people work from home, a figure that is far below the national average of 21.0%.
9.7% ▲ +220.4%
Lower than 51% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.0% ▼ -27.2%
Higher than 86% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 Major Cities of Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA40/major-cities-of-australia/topic/transport