7.7% ▼ -3.2%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Swan Hill · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Swan Hill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Cars are the main way of getting around Swan Hill, where 70.5% of workers drive themselves to a job. While most homes have at least one vehicle, a small number of residents rely on other methods for their daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 39% of homes in Swan Hill have two motor vehicles, and 12.1% have three. The 7.7% of households without a car is much higher than in most similar areas, though this has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Swan Hill splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.2% of workers use public transport, a figure that has fallen since 2011 and is a little below the national mark. Working from home is also far less common here than across Australia, with only 6.2% of the workforce doing so.
6.2% ▲ +88.3%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -92.2%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 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 Swan Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213014/swan-hill/topic/transport