7.0% ▼ -26.2%
Higher than 73% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
250,000 to 999,999 · Section of State Range
Transport & Vehicles in 250,000 to 999,999
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of the workforce in 250,000 to 999,999 travel to work as the driver of a car. This reliance on cars is mirrored by the fact that 74.5% of homes own at least one vehicle, though the area has seen a significant shift towards remote work in recent years.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, with 37.3% owning two and 37.2% owning one. While 7% of households have no motor vehicle, this figure has fallen by 2.5 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →250,000 to 999,999 splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged by 19 percentage points since 2011 and now reaches 22.5%, which is among the highest for similar areas. Meanwhile, public transport use has dropped to 1.2%, a little below the national figure of 3.1%.
22.5% ▲ +538.0%
Higher than 96% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -65.2%
Lower than 53% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 250,000 to 999,999 [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sosr/SOSR102/250-000-to-999-999/topic/transport