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Transport & Vehicles in Not in any Significant Urban Area

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Far fewer people live without a car in Not in any Significant Urban Area (OT) compared to the national figure. Only 4.2% of homes lack a motor vehicle, meaning the vast majority of households rely on their own transport to get around.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes here have one or two vehicles, and the proportion of households without a car has fallen from 8.4% in 2011 to 4.2% in 2021. This rate is much lower than most areas and well below the Australian figure of 7.4%.

Homes with no motor vehicle

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4.2% ▼ -49.9%

Lower than 85% of urban area areas.

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Not in any Significant Urban Area splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

1 vehicle 38.0% 2 vehicles 35.7% 3 vehicles 14.2% 4 or more 7.8% No vehicle 4.2%

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 59.6% of people, while only 5.4% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Public transport use for commuting is about the same as the state and national figures at around 3%.

People working from home

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5.4% ▲ +190.5%

Lower than 73% of urban area areas.

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

Commuting by public transport

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3.4% ▼ -63.1%

Higher than 94% of urban area areas.

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.

How people get to work

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In Not in any Significant Urban Area, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Walked is next at 9%.

Car (driver) 59.6% Walked 6.8% Worked at home 5.4% Car (passenger) 4.2% Bus 2.4% Bicycle 1.1%

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 Not in any Significant Urban Area [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/9000/not-in-any-significant-urban-area/topic/transport