1.6% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 1.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gisborne · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Gisborne
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 27% of people working in Gisborne now do so from home, a huge jump from just 5.7% in 2011. This shift toward home-based work is part of a wider trend where cars remain essential, as almost every household owns at least one vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes in Gisborne go without a car, with only 1.6% having no vehicle—a figure well below both the Victorian and national averages. Most households are well-equipped, and 44.6% have two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Gisborne, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 52.2% of workers drive, the number of people working from home has risen sharply to 26.8%, which is well above the national figure. Public transport use is rare here and has fallen to just 1.0% since 2011.
26.8% ▲ +374.6%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 26.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -76.7%
Higher than 68% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Gisborne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2009/gisborne/topic/transport