0.7% ▼ -91.2%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 0.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Metung · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of all homes in Metung have two motor vehicles, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars for local travel. This is a highly mobile area where almost every household owns a vehicle to get around.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 0.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average and has fallen 7.7 percentage points since 2011. Most households are well-equipped, with 46.8% owning two cars and another 14.6% owning three.
0.7% ▼ -91.2%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Metung, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 59.2% of residents, while 18.6% now work from home, a figure that rose 15 points since 2011. Public transport use is non-existent at 0.0%, which is well below the Australian figure.
18.6% ▲ +427.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% 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 Metung [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215055/metung/topic/transport