4.5% ▼ -47.6%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Melton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Melton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people are working from home in Melton than they were in 2011, as part of a broader shift in how the community travels. This change is seen alongside a steady drop in the number of households without a car, leaving only 4.5% of homes without a motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Melton have at least one car, with 40.8% owning two vehicles. The share of households without a car has fallen by 4.1 points since 2011, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Melton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (35%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers here drive to work, as 61.7% are drivers. While the number of people working from home rose 12 points since 2011 to reach 15.1%, this is still far below the state figure of 25.7%.
15.1% ▲ +408.3%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.2% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Melton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL211002/melton/topic/transport