3.0% ▼ -23.8%
Lower than 85% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.0%
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.
Only 3% of households in 499 or less have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This makes the area much more reliant on cars than most other similar places. The trend toward private transport is clear, as the number of car-less homes has fallen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 38.8% owning two and 16.5% owning three. The proportion of households without a vehicle is much lower than in most other areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In 499 or less, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work for 60.7% of residents, while public transport use is much lower than most areas at just 0.4%. Working from home has become more common, rising to 13.5% since 2011, though this remains well below the national figure.
13.5% ▲ +161.1%
Higher than 75% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -63.0%
Lower than 87% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 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 499 or less [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sosr/SOSR222/499-or-less/topic/transport