7.0% ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bairnsdale · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Bairnsdale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Bairnsdale than the state or national average, highlighting a heavy reliance on physical workplaces. Most residents depend on cars for travel, with 67.5% of workers driving themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7% of Bairnsdale homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. For those who do own cars, the typical household has one or two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bairnsdale splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work has fallen to just 0.3%, which is a little below the national figure. While working from home rose to 8.8% since 2011, this remains far below the Victorian rate of 25.7%.
8.8% ▲ +237.6%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -93.8%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Bairnsdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213001/bairnsdale/topic/transport