9.0% ▲ +358.2%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ouyen · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Ouyen
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A stark gap exists between Ouyen and the rest of the country, where almost nobody uses public transport to get to work. While most homes rely on cars, there has been a sharp rise in the number of households without any motor vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 9% of Ouyen homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and rose 7 percentage points since 2011. For those with cars, the most common setup is two vehicles per home, at 35.9%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Ouyen splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Ouyen commutes by public transport, a figure that fell 6.6 percentage points since 2011. Only 4.4% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
4.4% ▲ +19.0%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 4.4%
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: 6.6%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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 Ouyen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215067/ouyen/topic/transport