Cape Woolamai · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Cape Woolamai

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

Working from home has jumped by 18 percentage points since 2011 in Cape Woolamai. This shift to remote work happens in a place where cars are essential, as almost every home now owns at least one vehicle.

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📍 Cape Woolamai, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Very few households here get by without a car, with only 1.6% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%, and most homes now have two vehicles.

1.6% ▼ -77.2%

Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 7.1%
  • 2016: 3.2%
  • 2021: 1.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Cape Woolamai, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here commutes using public transport, which is well below the national figure. Instead, 56.8% of workers drive a car, while 20.3% work from home, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.

20.3% ▲ +752.1%

Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 2016: 6.0%
  • 2021: 20.3%

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: 1.2%
  • 2016: 1.1%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Cape Woolamai, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Worked at home is next at 25%.

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 Cape Woolamai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215019/cape-woolamai/topic/transport