1.5% ▼ -84.1%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Douglas Park · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Douglas Park
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge shift in how people move has hit Douglas Park since 2011, with the share of residents working from home climbing by 17 percentage points. Car ownership is now almost universal, as only 1.5% of homes have no motor vehicle. This makes the area much more dependent on private transport than most other places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here own multiple cars, with 82.2% of homes having two or more vehicles. Very few people get by without a car, a figure that has fallen to just 1.5% and is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Douglas Park, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 35%, followed by 4 or more (25%) and 3 vehicles (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive themselves to work, though 23.8% now work from home, which is a little above the Australian figure. Public transport use is very low, with only 1.1% of people using it to commute.
23.8% ▲ +228.2%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▲ —
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Douglas Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115054/douglas-park/topic/transport