1.2% ▼ -33.5%
Lower than 89% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
Far more people rely on private cars in Rural Balance than in most similar areas. Only 1.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average of 7.4%. This heavy dependence on cars defines how people move and work across the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 60.7% owning three or more vehicles. Only 1.2% of households are without a motor vehicle, a rate that has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rural Balance, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 4 or more (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 21.5% of people doing so, a figure that rose 7.4 points since 2011. Very few people use public transport for their commute at 0.4%, which is much lower than most other similar areas.
21.5% ▲ +52.1%
Higher than 91% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -63.3%
Lower than 88% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.4%
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/SOS23/rural-balance/topic/transport