1.7% ▼ -78.4%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Torquay - Jan Juc · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people work from home in Torquay - Jan Juc than in most similar areas, with 29.0% of the workforce doing so. This makes the area stand out for its high rate of remote work and its heavy reliance on private cars for travel.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here go without a car, with only 1.7% of households lacking one. This is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%, and the number of car-free homes has fallen 6.0 percentage points since 2011.
1.7% ▼ -78.4%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Torquay - Jan Juc, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
How people travel to work.
Nearly 30% of workers now operate from home, a figure that is well above the national average of 21.0% and has risen sharply since 2011. Meanwhile, public transport use is very low, with only 0.4% of people using it to get to work.
29.0% ▲ +1061.8%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -50.5%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Torquay - Jan Juc [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL212007/torquay-jan-juc/topic/transport