Basin View · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Basin View

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

Only 2.9% of homes in Basin View have no motor vehicle, making it a place where almost every household relies on a car. This heavy reliance on private transport is reflected in the way people travel for work, with the vast majority driving themselves.

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📍 Basin View, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 39.9% of homes owning two vehicles and 25.3% owning three or more. The proportion of homes without a car has fallen sharply since 2011 and is now well below the national figure.

2.9% ▼ -75.6%

Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 11.7%
  • 2016: 8.2%
  • 2021: 2.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Basin View, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (16%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the dominant way to get to work, used by 68.5% of residents. While 9.5% of people work from home, which is higher than in most similar areas, no one here uses public transport to commute.

9.5% ▲ +40.8%

Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.7%
  • 2016: 3.7%
  • 2021: 9.5%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.2%
  • 2016: 0.7%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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 Basin View, Car (driver) is the majority at 82%; Worked at home is next at 11%.

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 Basin View [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115011/basin-view/topic/transport