1.5% ▼ -29.0%
Lower than 85% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.5%
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.
Almost every home in Rural Balance relies on a car for daily travel. Only 1.5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. This heavy reliance on private transport defines how people move around the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Owning multiple cars is the norm here, with 39.3% of homes having two vehicles and 16.8% owning four or more. Very few households lack a car, a trend 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 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work (58.4%), while 17.3% work from home, a figure that rose since 2011. Public transport use is lower than most areas, with just 0.9% of workers using it.
17.3% ▲ +27.5%
Higher than 86% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -33.0%
Lower than 71% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.9%
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/SOS33/rural-balance/topic/transport