8.7% ▼ -9.5%
Higher than 89% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Melbourne · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Melbourne
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive shift in how people get around has hit Melbourne since 2011, with working from home surging to 29%. This change is part of a broader trend where the city is seeing fewer people rely on traditional commutes and slightly more homes owning cars.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.7% of homes in Melbourne have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have either one or two vehicles, though the share of car-free homes fell slightly since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Melbourne splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nearly 29% of workers now operate from home, a figure well above the national average and a huge rise from just 3.6% in 2011. This shift comes as public transport use for work fell to 3.6%, though this remains among the highest figures for similar areas.
29.0% ▲ +701.6%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.6% ▼ -62.9%
Higher than 95% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 3.6%
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 Melbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2011/melbourne/topic/transport