5.3% ▲ +42.2%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Heathcote · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Heathcote
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are the primary way people get around Heathcote, where almost no one uses public transport to get to work. While most homes have at least one car, the number of households without a vehicle has risen to 5.3% since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, with 44.5% owning one and 33.6% owning two. The proportion of households with no motor vehicle is higher than in most similar areas, though it remains a little below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Heathcote, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 66.6% of people as the car driver. Working from home has grown significantly to 12.1% since 2011, while public transport use has fallen to 0.0%, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.1%.
12.1% ▲ +418.3%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 12.1%
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: 1.1%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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 Heathcote [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215038/heathcote/topic/transport