4.3% ▼ -34.2%
Lower than 73% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 4.3%
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.
Only 4.3% of homes in 4,999 or less lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This makes the area far more reliant on cars than most similar places. While many people now work from home, the vast majority still depend on private transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households are without a car, and this has fallen by 2.3 percentage points since 2011. Most homes own at least two vehicles, with 39.3% having exactly two and another 21.7% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →4,999 or less splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 62.1% of people as the driver. Working from home has risen by 10 points since 2011 to reach 14.3%, while public transport use is very low at just 0.6%.
14.3% ▲ +231.1%
Higher than 78% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -60.4%
Lower than 79% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 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).
More for 4,999 or less
Cite this page
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/SOSR215/4-999-or-less/topic/transport