3.7% ▼ -35.8%
Lower than 88% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bacchus Marsh · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Bacchus Marsh
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few homes in Bacchus Marsh go without a car, with only 3.7% of households lacking a motor vehicle. This heavy reliance on cars defines daily travel here, while a growing number of residents have shifted their workday to the home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 40% of homes own two cars, and nearly a quarter have three or more. This high level of vehicle ownership is clear in the data, as the share of carless homes is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bacchus Marsh, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 59.5% of people. While 18.7% now work from home — a jump of 16 points since 2011 — only 1.6% use public transport, which is a little below the Victorian average.
18.7% ▲ +499.6%
Higher than 88% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.6% ▼ -62.5%
Higher than 81% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Bacchus Marsh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2001/bacchus-marsh/topic/transport