6.0% —
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mildura (Northern Victoria) · State Electorate
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Just 0.7% of working people use public transport in Mildura (Northern Victoria), highlighting a heavy reliance on cars for daily travel. Most households own at least one vehicle and very few people work from home compared to the rest of the state. While there are many transport stops, they are rarely used for commuting.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 37% of homes owning two vehicles and only 6% having none. This lack of a vehicle is a little below the Victorian and national figures, and has barely changed since 2016.
6.0% —
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mildura (Northern Victoria) splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, as only 0.7% of people use public transport. Working from home is far below the national figure at 9.6%, though this rose 3.6 points since 2016.
9.6% —
Lower than 67% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% —
Lower than 82% of state electorate areas.
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.
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Mildura has 488 public transport stops, which is far above the Victorian average per 1,000 people. However, these bus services are infrequent, with weekly departures being far below the state figure.
488
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.31
Higher than 92% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
360.1
Lower than 76% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
35
Higher than 69% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mildura (Northern Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED24904/mildura/topic/transport