5.1% ▼ -22.8%
Lower than 55% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 5.1%
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.
A shift in how people move has occurred in Major Urban since 2011, with more people working from home and fewer households without cars. While most residents still rely on vehicles, public transport use remains much higher here than in most similar areas. This mix reflects a region where car ownership is common but alternative travel is more frequent than the national trend.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 39.9% owning two. Only 5.1% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen since 2011 and is a little below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Major Urban splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is much higher than in most similar areas, sitting at 5.3% compared to 3.1% nationally. Conversely, 7.5% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%, despite this number rising since 2011.
7.5% ▲ +129.1%
Lower than 65% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.3% ▼ -20.3%
Higher than 87% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 5.3%
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 Major Urban [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS50/major-urban/topic/transport