1.3% ▼ -32.7%
Lower than 87% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 65% of workers in Rural Balance drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. The area is very vehicle-dependent, with only 1.3% of homes lacking a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average of 7.4%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 39.2% having two and another 38% having three or more. The proportion of homes without a vehicle has barely changed since 2011 and remains much lower than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rural Balance, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (21%) and 3 vehicles (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.7%, which is much lower than most areas. Working from home has risen to 12.5% since 2011, though this is still well below the Australian figure of 21%.
12.5% ▲ +33.1%
Higher than 64% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -18.6%
Lower than 78% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.7%
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/SOS63/rural-balance/topic/transport