5.0% ▼ -21.7%
Lower than 57% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 5.0%
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.
Over 62% of people in the Major Cities of Australia drive themselves to work. While most households own at least one car, public transport use is much higher here than in most other areas. This mix of travel habits reflects the unique layout of the nation's biggest urban centres.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Five per cent of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own one or two cars, with 39.9% owning two and 35.2% owning one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Major Cities of Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use is much higher than in most areas, with 5.2% of workers using it, though this is a little above the Australian figure of 3.1%. Meanwhile, the 7.6% of people working from home is far below the national figure of 21%.
7.6% ▲ +124.8%
Lower than 72% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.2% ▼ -19.3%
Higher than 87% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 5.2%
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/RA50/major-cities-of-australia/topic/transport