Mount Victoria · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Victoria

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

A huge shift towards working from home has changed daily life in Mount Victoria, where 34.4% of people now do their jobs from within the own residence. This trend is far above the national figure and marks a significant rise from a decade ago.

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📍 Mount Victoria, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 47.6% of homes have one vehicle, while 32.1% have two. The own proportion of homes without a motor vehicle rose to 6.4% since 2011, which is higher than most similar areas.

6.4% ▲ +388.6%

Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.3%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 6.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mount Victoria, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 48%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and No vehicle (7%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is among the highest at this level, with a typical resident far more likely to do so than those across Australia. Public transport use for work is about the same as the national figure at 2.6%.

34.4% ▲ +596.4%

Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.9%
  • 2016: 7.4%
  • 2021: 34.4%

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

2.6% ▲ +24.4%

Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.1%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 2.6%

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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Mount Victoria splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (45%) and Worked at home (43%), with Car (passenger) at 4%.

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 Mount Victoria [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121083/mount-victoria/topic/transport