10.5% ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Morwell · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Morwell
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 67% of people in Morwell drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While car use is high, about 10.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Around 10.5% of households in Morwell do not own a motor vehicle, a figure that is much higher than most areas and barely changed since 2011. For those who do own cars, 44.5% have one vehicle and 31.9% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Morwell, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and No vehicle (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 8.5% of residents work from home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%. Public transport use for commuting is very low at 1.3%, though this is still much higher than in most similar areas.
8.5% ▲ +310.6%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▲ +79.1%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Morwell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213011/morwell/topic/transport