0.8% ▼ -91.5%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Medowie · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Medowie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Medowie owns a car, making it much more vehicle-dependent than most similar areas. With only 0.8% of homes without a motor vehicle, the area relies heavily on private transport for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, with 44.8% of homes having two vehicles and another 31.9% owning three or more. This trend has strengthened over time, as the share of homes without a car fell from 10% in 2011 to just 0.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Medowie, 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.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 55.8% of residents, while 21.1% work from home, a figure that rose 19 points since 2011. Very few people use public transport, with only 0.3% commuting this way.
21.1% ▲ +958.7%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -27.0%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Medowie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113009/medowie/topic/transport