3.0% ▼ -39.5%
Lower than 86% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 3.0%
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.
Very few households without a car define the transport landscape in 500 or more, where only 3% of homes lack a motor vehicle. This is much lower than most similar areas and well below the national figure. Residents rely heavily on private transport for their daily needs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 40.1% owning two vehicles and 15.6% owning three. The number of households without any vehicle has fallen to 3.0%, which is far lower than the 7.4% seen across Australia.
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 (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Private cars are the main way to get to work for 62.4% of people, while public transport use is very low at 0.4%. Working from home has risen to 14.2% since 2011, though this is still well below the national figure of 21%.
14.2% ▲ +207.4%
Higher than 78% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -57.3%
Lower than 89% 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/SOSR221/500-or-more/topic/transport