7.5% ▼ -14.0%
Higher than 81% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Swan Hill · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Swan Hill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer homes without a car than in 2011 is a key shift for Swan Hill, where 7.5% of households now lack a motor vehicle. Most residents rely heavily on private cars for travel, as public transport and working from home are far less common here than across the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 40% of Swan Hill homes have two vehicles, while 35.2% have just one. The number of homes without any motor vehicle has fallen by 1.2 percentage points since 2011 to reach 7.5%, a figure about the same as the Victorian and national averages.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Swan Hill splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 70.2% of people commuting as the driver. Very few people use public transport at 0.2%, and those working from home make up only 6.3% of the workforce, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
6.3% ▲ +120.9%
Lower than 66% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -76.1%
Lower than 96% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.1%
- 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 Swan Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2017/swan-hill/topic/transport