4.1% ▼ -33.3%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bacchus Marsh · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Bacchus Marsh
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 60% of workers in Bacchus Marsh drive themselves to work. This reliance on cars is mirrored in the home environment, where only 4.1% of households get by without a motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least two cars, with 39.6% owning exactly two. Far fewer people live without a car compared to the state and national figures, and this has fallen by 2.1 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bacchus Marsh, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 18.5% since 2011, which is much higher than most similar areas. Meanwhile, use of public transport for commuting has fallen to 1.7%, a figure slightly below the national average.
18.5% ▲ +889.3%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.7% ▼ -64.4%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Bacchus Marsh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL212001/bacchus-marsh/topic/transport