Mirboo North · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Mirboo North

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Far more people are working from home in Mirboo North than they were in 2011, as the town becomes more reliant on private cars. While the number of households without a vehicle has dropped, almost no one uses public transport to get to work.

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📍 Mirboo North, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes in Mirboo North have at least one car, and 37.7% have two. Only 3.9% of households are without a motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average and has fallen by 4.5 percentage points since 2011.

3.9% ▼ -53.5%

Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.4%
  • 2016: 4.9%
  • 2021: 3.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Mirboo North splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 62.9% of residents. While 13.6% now work from home—a rise of 9.9 percentage points since 2011—this is still far below the Victoria figure, and public transport use has fallen to 0.0%.

13.6% ▲ +274.3%

Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.6%
  • 2016: 7.9%
  • 2021: 13.6%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.5%
  • 2016: 0.4%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Mirboo North, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

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 Mirboo North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215057/mirboo-north/topic/transport