1.4% ▼ -39.9%
Lower than 87% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rural Balance · Section of State
Transport & Vehicles in Rural Balance
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership is essential for daily life in Rural Balance, where only 1.4% of homes have no motor vehicle. This reliance on cars is reflected in the way people travel, with the vast majority driving or working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 39.1% owning two and 18.1% owning four or more. The share of homes without any vehicle is much lower than most areas and fell slightly since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rural Balance, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 3 vehicles (21%) and 1 vehicle (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 22.1% of people doing so—a figure that rose 7.6 percentage points since 2011. In contrast, public transport use is very low at 0.3%, which is much lower than most similar areas.
22.1% ▲ +52.8%
Higher than 91% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 22.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -61.9%
Lower than 91% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Rural Balance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS13/rural-balance/topic/transport