Mount Beauty - Tawonga · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Beauty - Tawonga

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

Over half of working residents in Mount Beauty - Tawonga drive themselves to work. This reliance on cars is mirrored in the home life of the area, where very few households go without a motor vehicle.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 4.0% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national and state averages and has fallen since 2011. Most households have at least two cars, with 42.7% owning exactly two.

4.0% ▼ -49.8%

Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.1%
  • 2016: 6.4%
  • 2021: 4.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mount Beauty - Tawonga, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (11%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home has risen sharply since 2011 to reach 16.6%, though this is still well below the national figure. Public transport use is very low at 0.6%, while 7.6% of people walk to their jobs.

16.6% ▲ +507.7%

Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.7%
  • 2016: 4.8%
  • 2021: 16.6%

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

0.6% ▲ +27.1%

Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.5%
  • 2016: 0.8%
  • 2021: 0.6%

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 Mount Beauty - Tawonga, Car (driver) is the majority at 62%; Worked at home is next at 20%.

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 Mount Beauty - Tawonga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215059/mount-beauty-tawonga/topic/transport