1.6% ▼ -11.3%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 1.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lancefield · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more households in Lancefield own cars than in most similar areas. Only 1.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. This high level of car ownership reflects the area's reliance on private transport for daily travel.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 42.8% owning two and 17.6% owning three. This level of ownership has remained steady since 2011, with very few households lacking a vehicle.
1.6% ▼ -11.3%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Lancefield, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen to 19.8% since 2011, though this is still well below the Victorian figure of 25.7%. Most people rely on cars to get to work, while public transport use has fallen to just 0.4%.
19.8% ▲ +138.8%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -94.5%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lancefield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215046/lancefield/topic/transport