6.1% ▼ -20.3%
Higher than 61% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 6.1%
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.
More homes here lack a car than in most similar areas, though Major Urban remains heavily reliant on road travel. While 6.1% of households have no motor vehicle, the vast majority of residents depend on cars for their daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, with 39.7% owning two and 35.9% owning one. The proportion of households without a vehicle has fallen slightly since 2011 to 6.1%, which 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 (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 67.4% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 4.0%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0% and much lower than most similar areas.
4.0% ▲ +79.0%
Lower than 88% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.5% ▼ -30.2%
Higher than 55% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 2.5%
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/SOS70/major-urban/topic/transport