1.6% ▼ -67.5%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 1.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Garfield · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Garfield
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is the primary way people get around Garfield, with 61% of workers commuting by car. The area is heavily reliant on private transport, and very few residents live without a motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 1.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%. Most households have multiple cars, with 43.9% owning two and another 26.6% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Garfield, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen to 15.7% since 2011, though this remains far below the state figure of 25.7%. Public transport use is very low, with only 0.9% of workers using it to get to their jobs.
15.7% ▲ +239.7%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -37.4%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Garfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215035/garfield/topic/transport