3.5% ▼ -23.7%
Lower than 91% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 3.5%
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.
Two-thirds of workers in Inner Regional Australia drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars. Most homes here own multiple vehicles, and very few people get around without one. This makes the area much more car-dependent than the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 3.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are well-equipped, with 37.6% owning two vehicles and 16.2% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Inner Regional Australia, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work at 0.6%, which is lower than most similar areas. While 10.9% of people now work from home, this is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
10.9% ▲ +56.6%
Higher than 58% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -48.5%
Lower than 74% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.6%
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/RA41/inner-regional-australia/topic/transport