6.5% ▼ -31.0%
Higher than 56% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Castlemaine · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Castlemaine
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than a quarter of workers in Castlemaine now work from home, a huge jump that has changed how people get around. While most residents still rely on cars, the area has seen a significant shift toward flexible working over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, though 6.5% have none. This is a little below the Victorian figure and reflects a downward trend from 9.4% in 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Castlemaine, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 25.8% of people doing so—well above the national figure. This has coincided with a rise in public transport use for work, which climbed to 1.5% since 2011.
25.8% ▲ +971.3%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▲ +363.6%
Higher than 80% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Castlemaine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2005/castlemaine/topic/transport