4.3% ▲ +21.2%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bright · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Bright
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Most areas like this rely heavily on cars, but Bright stands out for how many people work from home. Around 21% of workers now do their jobs from home, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas. This shift towards home-based work has grown significantly since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are very common here, with 40.7% of homes having one vehicle and 37.6% having two. Only 4.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bright splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the most common way to get to work for 45.3% of residents, while 11.4% walk. Use of public transport is very low at 0.3%, a figure that has fallen since 2011 and sits a little below the state average.
20.7% ▲ +248.0%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -89.3%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Bright [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215015/bright/topic/transport