3.9% ▼ -48.2%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sunbury · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Sunbury
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge surge in remote work defines Sunbury, where the proportion of people working from home jumped 20 percentage points since 2011. Most residents rely heavily on cars to get around, and very few households are without a vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 3.9% of homes in Sunbury have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average and has fallen since 2011. Most households own at least two cars, with 41.6% having exactly two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sunbury, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 21.5% of the workforce doing so, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. While 55.9% of people drive themselves to work, only 1.9% use public transport, though this is slightly higher than it was in 2011.
21.5% ▲ +1034.1%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.9% ▲ +95.6%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Sunbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL212006/sunbury/topic/transport