5.1% ▼ -39.8%
Lower than 71% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Geelong · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Geelong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people work from home in Geelong than in most similar areas, though car travel remains the dominant way to get around. While the typical household is well-equipped with vehicles, the number of people using public transport to commute has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households in Geelong go without a car, with only 5.1% having no motor vehicle. This is lower than the 7.6% across Victoria, and the figure has fallen 3.4 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Geelong, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (35%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 19.7%, up 17 percentage points since 2011, which is much higher than in most similar areas. However, public transport use for work is much higher than in similar areas despite falling to just 1.3%.
19.7% ▲ +596.0%
Higher than 89% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▼ -63.2%
Higher than 75% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Geelong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2008/geelong/topic/transport