Dimboola · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Dimboola

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

Almost every household in Dimboola relies on a car to get around, with 92.4% of homes owning at least one motor vehicle. This heavy dependence on driving is reflected in the way people get to work, where public transport is not used at all.

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📍 Dimboola, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have one or two cars, though 20.6% of households own three or more. Around 7.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is about the same as the Victorian and national averages.

7.6% ▲ +3.8%

Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 7.3%
  • 2016: 7.0%
  • 2021: 7.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 67.3% of residents, and 6.8% simply walk. While the number of people working from home rose to 9.6% since 2011, this remains far below the national figure of 21.0%.

9.6% ▲ +84.7%

Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.2%
  • 2016: 3.1%
  • 2021: 9.6%

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: 0.7%
  • 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 Dimboola, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; 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 Dimboola [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215030/dimboola/topic/transport