5.6% ▼ -28.7%
Lower than 61% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bendigo · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Bendigo
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 63% of working residents in Bendigo drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Most homes here have at least one vehicle, and the number of households without a car has fallen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 38% of Bendigo homes have two vehicles, and only 5.6% of households are without a car. This is a little below the national figure of 7.4%, and the share of carless homes has fallen by 2.2 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bendigo splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose by 10 percentage points since 2011 to reach 13.1%, which is much higher than most similar areas. Public transport use is very low at 0.9%, a figure that is a little below the Victorian average of 2.9%.
13.1% ▲ +321.4%
Higher than 76% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -44.4%
Higher than 62% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Bendigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2004/bendigo/topic/transport