7.8% ▲ +138.1%
Higher than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Colac · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Colac
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A growing number of households in Colac now get around without a car, with the share of homes without a vehicle rising 4.5 percentage points since 2011. While most residents still rely on cars, the area sees far fewer people working from home than the state average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas. Most households own one or two vehicles, with 37.5% having one and 35.8% having two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Colac splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport for work, at just 0.2%, and only 6.2% work from home—a figure far below the Victorian average. Most workers drive themselves, with 67.8% of people commuting as the driver.
6.2% ▲ +66.0%
Lower than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -85.7%
Lower than 93% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Colac [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2006/colac/topic/transport