1.2% ▼ -51.3%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Emerald Beach West · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Emerald Beach West
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 1.2% of homes in Emerald Beach West have no motor vehicle, making it an area where car ownership is far more common than in most other places. This heavy reliance on cars shapes how people move around and get to work. The area is largely dependent on private transport for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost half of all households have two vehicles, and 13.9% own four or more. Very few homes lack a car, a figure that fell from 2.4% in 2011 to just 1.2% in 2021.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Emerald Beach West, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (20%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, though the share of those working from home rose 10 points since 2011 to reach 16.4%. Public transport use is very low, with only 0.5% of workers using it.
16.4% ▲ +155.3%
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -69.0%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Beach West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121036/emerald-beach-west/topic/transport