4.8% ▼ -38.7%
Lower than 66% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
4,999 or less · Section of State Range
Transport & Vehicles in 4,999 or less
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 61% of workers in 4,999 or less drive themselves to work. This is a highly car-reliant area where very few people use public transport to get around. Only 4.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is lower than most similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 38.3% owning two and 37.7% owning one. The share of households without a vehicle has fallen since 2011 and is now a little below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →4,999 or less splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport is rarely used for commuting, at just 0.5%, which is much lower than most areas. While 13.3% of people now work from home—a rise of 8.8 points since 2011—this is still well below the Australian figure of 21%.
13.3% ▲ +197.7%
Higher than 74% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -53.2%
Lower than 84% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 4,999 or less [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sosr/SOSR115/4-999-or-less/topic/transport