4.0% ▼ -46.0%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Whittlesea · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Whittlesea
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A rise in remote work and a drop in car-free homes have changed how people move in Whittlesea since 2011. Most residents rely on their own cars, though 15.0% now work from home. This shift is part of a broader trend toward more flexible ways of getting to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here go without a car, with only 4.0% having none. This is well below the Victorian and national figures and represents a 3.4 point drop since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Whittlesea, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose 11 points since 2011 to 15.0%, though this is still far below the state average. Driving remains the main choice for 63.3% of workers, while public transport use is very low at 1.0%.
15.0% ▲ +313.7%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▲ +290.6%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.2%
- 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 Whittlesea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214021/whittlesea/topic/transport