8.0% ▼ -16.3%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Colac · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Colac
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Daily life in Colac relies heavily on private cars, with very few people using public transport to get to work. While 67.8% of the workforce drives themselves, only 0.2% use buses or trains for their commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, though 8.0% of Colac households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Colac splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, with only 6.1% doing so—a figure far below the national average of 21.0%. This reliance on physical workplaces is mirrored by the same low use of public transport.
6.1% ▲ +184.6%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -11.1%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Colac [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213003/colac/topic/transport