4.0% ▼ -41.1%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Avoca · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Avoca
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few homes in Avoca lack a car, with only 4% of households without one. This makes the town far more reliant on private vehicles than the state or national averages. Most residents depend on their own transport to get around and get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 36.3% of homes owning two vehicles and 15.2% owning three. The share of car-free homes has fallen 2.8 percentage points since 2011, leaving the area well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Avoca splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 63.3% of residents. While working from home rose to 8.8% since 2011, this is still far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use is very low at 1.1%.
8.8% ▲ +193.1%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▼ -79.8%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Avoca [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215005/avoca/topic/transport