5.0% ▲ —
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Beechworth · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Beechworth
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A sharp 15 percentage point rise in working from home defines the recent shift in transport for Beechworth. Most residents rely on cars to get around, though 5% of homes now have no motor vehicle. This is a significant increase from 2011, when every home in the area owned at least one vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 40% of homes have one car and 38.8% have two. While the 5% of households without a vehicle is higher than in most similar areas, this figure remains a little below the Victorian average of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Beechworth splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive to their jobs, while 18% now work from home—a figure much higher than in most similar areas. Public transport use has fallen to 0%, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.
18.0% ▲ +539.3%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Beechworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215012/beechworth/topic/transport