3.5% ▼ -24.2%
Lower than 90% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Emerald · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Emerald
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people in Emerald go without a car, making it one of the areas with the lowest rates of vehicle-less homes. This reliance on cars is reflected in the way people get to work, with the vast majority driving.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 3.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the Australian average of 7.4%. Most households own multiple cars, with 40.5% having two and another 23.7% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Emerald, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here at 3.9%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. In contrast, more people use public transport to get to work than in most similar areas, with 4.2% using a bus.
3.9% ▲ +77.2%
Lower than 88% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.2% ▲ +106.5%
Higher than 97% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Emerald [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3005/emerald/topic/transport