6.9% ▼ -25.9%
Higher than 68% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 6.9%
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.
Fewer households are without a car in Inner Regional Australia than they were in 2011. Most residents rely on private vehicles to get around, with a small number using public transport and very few working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Around 6.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most similar areas but about the same as the national figure. This is a drop from 2011, when 9.4% of households lacked a vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Inner Regional Australia splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 7.5%. While this figure rose by 4.2 percentage points since 2011, most people still drive, with 62.5% of workers commuting as the driver of a car.
7.5% ▲ +124.8%
Lower than 73% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.5% ▲ +2.2%
Higher than 71% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.5%
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/RA61/inner-regional-australia/topic/transport