4.1% ▼ -31.3%
Lower than 75% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
499 or less · Section of State Range
Transport & Vehicles in 499 or less
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has jumped by 8.3 percentage points since 2011 in 499 or less, reflecting a shift in how people get to work. This area relies heavily on cars, with only 4.1% of homes lacking a motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here go without a car, a figure that is well below the national rate of 7.4%. Most households own at least two vehicles, with 38.7% having exactly two and 8.9% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →499 or less splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.6% of workers use public transport, which is much lower than in most similar areas. While the proportion of people working from home rose to 14.1%, this remains well below the Australian figure of 21%.
14.1% ▲ +143.5%
Higher than 78% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -61.5%
Lower than 82% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 499 or less [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sosr/SOSR122/499-or-less/topic/transport