5.6% ▼ -11.7%
Higher than 51% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.6%
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.
Daily travel in the Major Cities of Australia is dominated by car use, though public transport is more common here than in most other areas. Most homes have one or two vehicles, while a growing number of people now work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 5.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure of 7.4% and barely changed since 2011. Most households have either one vehicle (39.2%) or two (38.7%).
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Major Cities of Australia splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose to 10.9% since 2011, though this remains far below the national figure of 21.0%. Public transport use for commuting is 4.6%, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the Australian average.
10.9% ▲ +304.5%
Higher than 58% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.6% ▼ -19.4%
Higher than 83% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 4.6%
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 Major Cities of Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA80/major-cities-of-australia/topic/transport