9.5% ▼ -14.6%
Higher than 86% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 9.5%
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.
Daily life in Rural Balance depends heavily on private travel, with 59.9% of workers driving themselves to their jobs. This is a place where cars are essential for most, though a surprising 9.5% of homes still have no motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Far more homes here have no motor vehicle than in most other areas, though this figure fell slightly from 11.1% in 2011. Most households do own a car, with 32.6% owning two and 16.9% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rural Balance, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 33%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, at just 7.9%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Only 1.3% of people use public transport to get to work, a rate that has barely changed since 2011.
7.9% ▲ +20.7%
Lower than 61% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▼ -35.1%
Lower than 57% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Rural Balance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS73/rural-balance/topic/transport