6.4% ▼ -22.0%
Higher than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bairnsdale · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Bairnsdale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people are working from home in Bairnsdale than they were in 2011, though cars remain the dominant way to get around. Very few residents rely on public transport to reach their jobs, with 67.4% of workers driving themselves.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Bairnsdale have at least one car, with 36.5% owning two and 12.4% owning three. The proportion of households without a vehicle fell to 6.4% by 2021, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bairnsdale splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose to 9.2% since 2011, though this remains far below the national figure of 21.0%. Public transport use for commuting is very low at just 0.3%, which is much lower than most other areas.
9.2% ▲ +159.8%
Higher than 56% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -44.3%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Bairnsdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2002/bairnsdale/topic/transport