Chiltern · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Chiltern

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

Private cars are essential for daily life in Chiltern, where almost no one uses public transport to get to work. This reliance on vehicles is reflected in the fact that very few households are without a car, with the number of car-less homes falling to 3.4% since 2011.

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📍 Chiltern, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, and 36.4% own two. Only 3.4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

3.4% ▼ -47.0%

Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.5%
  • 2016: 5.6%
  • 2021: 3.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Chiltern splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 65.4% of people, while 0.0% use public transport. Those working from home rose to 8.8% since 2011, though this remains far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.

8.8% ▲ +232.5%

Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 3.5%
  • 2021: 8.8%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 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 Chiltern, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Worked at home is next at 11%.

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 Chiltern [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215021/chiltern/topic/transport