0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
Car ownership has grown and work-from-home habits have shifted since 2011 in Rural Balance. This area is now almost entirely dependent on private vehicles for transport, with 17.6% of the workforce operating from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Rural Balance now has at least one motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. Most households are heavily equipped, with 35.8% owning two cars and 28.4% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rural Balance, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 34%, followed by 4 or more (27%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost no one uses public transport to get to work, which is much lower than most areas. While 44.9% of workers drive, 17.6% now work from home, an increase of 7.1 percentage points since 2011.
17.6% ▲ +67.3%
Higher than 86% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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/SOS83/rural-balance/topic/transport