1.9% ▼ -30.9%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Diggers Rest · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Diggers Rest
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of workers in Diggers Rest drive themselves to work, reflecting a strong reliance on cars. Most households own multiple vehicles, and a growing number of residents are now working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are very common here, with 46.2% of homes owning two vehicles and only 1.9% having none. This lack of carless homes is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Diggers Rest, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 22.3%, up 18 points since 2011. While 55.4% of people drive to work, the 3.4% who use public transport is among the highest for similar areas.
22.3% ▲ +426.1%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.4% ▼ -5.5%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 3.4%
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 Diggers Rest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214007/diggers-rest/topic/transport