8.1% ▼ -25.9%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Orbost · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Orbost
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Orbost sees more people without a car than most similar areas. While 8.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, the vast majority of residents rely on cars to get around. This dependence is clear in the way people travel for work, where driving is by far the most common choice.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 45.5% of homes have one vehicle and 34.5% have two. The share of households without a car is 8.1%, which is much higher than most areas, though this is a drop from 11.0% in 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Orbost, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 61.9% of people as the driver. Working from home has risen to 8.3% since 2011, but this is still far below the national figure of 21.0%, and no one here uses public transport to commute.
8.3% ▲ +192.5%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 8.3%
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: 1.6%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 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.
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 Orbost [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215066/orbost/topic/transport