8.0% ▼ -23.7%
Higher than 81% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 8.0%
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.
Far fewer people work from home in Major Urban than across the rest of Australia. While 5.1% of the workforce uses public transport to get to work—a figure much higher than in most similar areas—the area remains heavily reliant on cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Around 8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is a decrease from 2011, when 10.5% of households lived without a vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Major Urban splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here at 7.9% compared to the national figure of 21%. Most people still commute by car, though the 5.1% who use public transport is a little above the Australian average.
7.9% ▲ +142.5%
Lower than 62% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.1% ▼ -2.6%
Higher than 86% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 5.1%
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/SOS60/major-urban/topic/transport