2.7% ▼ -79.5%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lara · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Lara
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 62% of working residents in Lara drive themselves to work. The area is heavily reliant on cars, though there has been a sharp rise in the number of people working from home since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes in Lara get by without a car, with only 2.7% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%, and the number of car-free homes has fallen by 10 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lara, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 17.6%, a rise of 16 points since 2011. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.
17.6% ▲ +1054.5%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.9% ▲ +19.8%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 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 Lara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213008/lara/topic/transport