8.2% ▼ -26.6%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ararat · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Ararat
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Most workers in Ararat rely on their own cars to get to work, with 65.4% driving themselves. While car use is the norm, a small number of homes still get by without a motor vehicle. The town's transport habits have stayed largely the same over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 40% of Ararat homes have one vehicle and 34% have two. The proportion of homes with no car is 8.2%, which is much higher than most areas, though this figure fell by 3 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ararat, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here at 5.8%, which is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%. Public transport use is also low at 0.8%, a little below the national average and barely changed since 2011.
5.8% ▲ +179.8%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▲ +17.0%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Ararat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214001/ararat/topic/transport