7.3% ▼ -7.9%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Patonga · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Patonga
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive shift in how people work has hit Patonga, where the number of residents working from home rose by 32 percentage points since 2011. This trend defines the local transport landscape, with 44.1% of the workforce now operating from home, far above the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Patonga have at least one car, with 47.9% owning one vehicle and 38.5% owning two. About 7.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Patonga, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 49%, followed by 2 vehicles (39%) and No vehicle (7%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is a dominant choice for 44.1% of the workforce, while 30.9% drive to work. No one in the area uses public transport to commute, a figure that is well below the Australian average and has remained unchanged since 2011.
44.1% ▲ +267.6%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 44.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Patonga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122108/patonga/topic/transport