0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Orchard Hills · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 30 percentage point jump in working from home since 2011 defines the shift in Orchard Hills (L). This area has become almost entirely dependent on cars, with not a single home lacking a motor vehicle in 2021.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home here has at least one vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% for those without a car. Most households are heavily equipped, with 33.1% owning four or more vehicles and 35.4% owning two.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Orchard Hills splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 4 or more (35%), with 3 vehicles at 24%.
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 32.1% of residents doing so—a figure far above the Australian average of 21.0%. No one uses public transport to get to work, while 45.4% of people drive themselves.
32.1% ▲ +1270.0%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
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 Orchard Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122104/orchard-hills/topic/transport