3.4% —
Lower than 82% of section of state range areas.
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 3.4%
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.
Almost every home in 500 or more relies on a car to get around, as very few people use public transport. With only 3.4% of households lacking a motor vehicle, car ownership is much more common here than in most other similar areas.
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% and has fallen since 2016. Most households own one or two vehicles, while 20.1% have three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →500 or more splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 62.6% of people, while public transport use is among the lowest for similar areas at 0.0%. Working from home is also rare at 6.0%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
6.0% —
Lower than 72% of section of state range areas.
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of section of state range areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
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/SOSR921/500-or-more/topic/transport