2.4% ▼ -33.6%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Maldon · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership is very high in Maldon, where only 2.4% of homes lack a motor vehicle. This reliance on private transport is balanced by a growing number of residents who now work from home, a figure that has jumped 16 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here go without a car, a rate well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own one or two vehicles, while 13.2% have three and 6.4% own four or more.
2.4% ▼ -33.6%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Maldon, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive to their jobs, and 21.6% work from home, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. Public transport use is very low at 1.3%, though this is still much higher than in most similar areas.
21.6% ▲ +287.1%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 80% 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 Maldon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215052/maldon/topic/transport