7.0% ▲ +5.3%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Merbein · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Merbein
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 4.4% of people in Merbein work from home, a figure far below the national average. This shows a community that mostly relies on traditional commutes, with the vast majority of residents travelling to work by car.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 37% of local homes have two motor vehicles, while 36% have just one. Very few households get by without a car, with only 7% of homes reporting no motor vehicle, a rate that has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Merbein splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the dominant way to get around, with 74.7% of workers driving to their jobs. Public transport use is very low at 1%, which is a little below the Victorian figure and reflects a significant drop in people working from home since 2011.
4.4% ▼ -43.9%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▲ +18.9%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Merbein [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215054/merbein/topic/transport