4.7% ▼ -52.6%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Heywood · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Heywood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 71% of workers in Heywood drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Most households own at least one vehicle, and the number of homes without a car has fallen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 39% of homes have two vehicles, and only 4.7% have none. This lack of cars is a little below the Victorian figure of 7.6% and has dropped 5.2 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Heywood splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use has fallen to 0.0% since 2011, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Those working from home make up 7.6% of the workforce, a figure far below the 25.7% seen across Victoria.
7.6% ▲ +24.3%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 7.6%
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: 4.0%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Heywood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215040/heywood/topic/transport