6.2% ▼ -21.1%
Higher than 62% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Major Urban · Section of State
Transport & Vehicles in Major Urban
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has surged in Major Urban, with the share of people doing so rising 12 percentage points since 2011. This shift comes as the area sees a mix of travel habits, where most people still rely on cars but a higher-than-usual number of households live without any motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most similar areas. Most households keep one or two cars, while 12.1% have three vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Major Urban splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The number of people working from home has grown to 15.7%, a figure much higher than most similar areas. Meanwhile, 3.7% of workers use public transport, which is more than in most other areas despite a 3.7 percentage point drop since 2011.
15.7% ▲ +282.8%
Higher than 78% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.7% ▼ -50.6%
Higher than 70% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 3.7%
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 Urban [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS30/major-urban/topic/transport