Maldon · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Maldon

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.

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📍 Maldon, Urban Centre

Vehicles

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.

  • 2011: 3.6%
  • 2016: 6.3%
  • 2021: 2.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Maldon, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (13%).

Getting to work

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.

  • 2011: 5.6%
  • 2016: 5.4%
  • 2021: 21.6%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

1.3% ▼ -1.4%

Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.3%
  • 2016: 1.2%
  • 2021: 1.3%

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.

How people get to work

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In Maldon, Car (driver) is the majority at 64%; Worked at home is next at 26%.

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 Maldon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215052/maldon/topic/transport