4.8% ▼ -18.9%
Lower than 57% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 4.8%
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.
Heavy reliance on cars shapes daily life in Other Urban, where 67% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. This dependence is reflected in the high number of vehicles per household, while very few people work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and about 39% of households own two. Only 4.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Other Urban splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 4.3% doing so. Public transport use is also low at 1.8%, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
4.3% ▲ +55.8%
Lower than 87% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% ▼ -39.8%
Lower than 52% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 1.8%
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/SOS51/other-urban/topic/transport