6.4% ▼ -20.0%
Higher than 67% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Other Urban · Section of State
Transport & Vehicles in Other Urban
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A shift toward more car ownership has occurred in Other Urban since 2011, as the number of homes without a vehicle fell by 1.6 percentage points. Most residents now rely on cars to get around, with very few using public transport or working from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is higher than in most similar areas. Most households have one or two cars, with about 37% falling into each of those categories.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Other Urban splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 69.2% of people as the driver. Very few people use public transport (1.2%) or work from home (6.6%), and both figures are far below the national figures.
6.6% ▲ +100.9%
Lower than 72% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -30.4%
Lower than 63% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Other Urban [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS41/other-urban/topic/transport