9.2% ▲ +46.2%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Whitton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Whitton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Whitton (L) than across the rest of the country. While the typical home has one or two cars, the area is almost entirely dependent on private vehicles for travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 9.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas and has risen since 2011. Most households rely on a few cars, with 31.5% having one and 28.5% having two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Whitton splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (32%) and 2 vehicles (29%), with 3 vehicles at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 81.5% of people using a car as the driver. Very few people work from home at 4.8%, a figure far below the national average of 21.0%, and no one uses public transport.
4.8% ▲ +18.5%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 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 Whitton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122149/whitton/topic/transport