2.5% ▼ -82.7%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Leopold · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Leopold
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 2.5% of homes in Leopold have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This makes the area one of the most car-dependent places in the region. While more people now work from home, the vast majority of residents still rely on their own cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 43.7% having two and 14.4% having three. This high level of car ownership is reflected in the fact that the share of homes without a vehicle has fallen 12 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Leopold, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work for 65.3% of residents. While 14.1% of people now work from home—a 12 point rise since 2011—public transport use is very low at just 1.0%.
14.1% ▲ +790.7%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -46.3%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Leopold [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213009/leopold/topic/transport