6.8% ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Foster · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Foster
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero people used public transport to get to work in Foster in 2021. This total reliance on other travel options reflects a place where most households own at least one car. While few people work from home compared to the national figure, this has risen to 8.7% since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 52.6% of homes have one motor vehicle and 27.7% have two. Only 6.8% of households have no vehicle, a figure that is about the same as the Victorian and national averages and has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Foster, 1 vehicle is the majority at 53%; 2 vehicles is next at 28%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 59.5% of residents, while 11.1% walk. The 8.7% of people working from home is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
8.7% ▲ +247.0%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 8.7%
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: 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.
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 Foster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215034/foster/topic/transport