1.2% ▼ -92.2%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Red Head · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A tiny 1.2% of homes in Red Head have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure. This makes the area much more dependent on cars than most other similar places. Most residents rely on their own vehicles to get around and get to work.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every household owns at least one car, and 41.1% of homes have two. The proportion of homes without a vehicle has fallen sharply since 2011, dropping by 15 percentage points.
1.2% ▼ -92.2%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Red Head splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (40%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
How people travel to work.
No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the Australian figure. While 62.1% of workers drive, 14.6% work from home, a figure that has risen since 2011.
14.6% ▲ +85.2%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Red Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121096/red-head/topic/transport