3.6% ▼ -42.1%
Lower than 67% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bounded Locality · Section of State
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A sharp drop in public transport use since 2011 marks the changing travel habits of Bounded Locality. Most people here rely on their own cars, with only 3.6% of homes having no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is common, and the number of homes without a vehicle has fallen to 3.6% since 2011. Most households have either one or two cars, while 9.6% of homes have four or more.
3.6% ▼ -42.1%
Lower than 67% of section of state areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bounded Locality splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 53.1% of people, while only 6.2% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Public transport use has plummeted by 11 percentage points since 2011 to just 2.2%.
6.2% ▲ +230.5%
Lower than 76% of section of state areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.2% ▼ -83.6%
Higher than 52% of section of state areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bounded Locality [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS92/bounded-locality/topic/transport