Beaconsfield Upper · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Beaconsfield Upper

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Not a single home in Beaconsfield Upper is without a motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars is reflected in the way people travel, with the vast majority driving or working from home.

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📍 Beaconsfield Upper, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 68.4% of households owning three or more vehicles. This is well below the Victorian and national figures for homes without a car, which sit at 7.6% and 7.4% respectively.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.7%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Beaconsfield Upper, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 4 or more (23%) and 3 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home has surged to 25.4% since 2011, a figure well above the Australian average. This shift is seen in the daily travel patterns, as only 0.4% of workers use public transport, which is a little below the state and national averages.

25.4% ▲ +416.6%

Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.9%
  • 2016: 6.1%
  • 2021: 25.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.4% ▼ -79.0%

Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.9%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 0.4%

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.

How people get to work

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In Beaconsfield Upper, Car (driver) is the majority at 64%; Worked at home is next at 30%.

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 Beaconsfield Upper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215010/beaconsfield-upper/topic/transport