5.6% ▼ -11.6%
Higher than 52% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.6%
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.
Daily travel in Major Urban relies heavily on cars, though public transport use is higher than in most other areas. While 59% of workers drive themselves to work, the region's transport patterns are slowly shifting as more people work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have either one or two motor vehicles, while 5.6% of households have none. This figure is a little below the national average of 7.4% and has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Major Urban splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is much higher here than in most similar areas, though it fell slightly since 2011 to 4.6%. Meanwhile, the share of people working from home rose sharply to 10.9%, which remains far below the Australian figure of 21%.
10.9% ▲ +305.6%
Higher than 56% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.6% ▼ -19.4%
Higher than 81% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 4.6%
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/SOS80/major-urban/topic/transport