3.1% ▼ -39.3%
Lower than 85% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
500 or more · Section of State Range
Transport & Vehicles in 500 or more
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 3.1% of homes in 500 or more have no motor vehicle, which is much lower than most similar areas. This highlights a heavy reliance on cars for getting around. While more people are working from home than in the past, the vast majority of the workforce still depends on private transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here own multiple cars, with 40.4% having two and 15% having three. The proportion of homes without a vehicle is well below the national figure of 7.4% and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In 500 or more, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way people get to work, with 61.8% as the driver. Working from home has risen to 14.6% since 2011, while public transport use is very low at just 0.4%.
14.6% ▲ +205.2%
Higher than 80% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -56.3%
Lower than 88% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 500 or more [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sosr/SOSR121/500-or-more/topic/transport