3.5% ▼ -80.8%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Paynesville · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 65% of workers in Paynesville drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on cars. This is a place where almost every household owns a vehicle and public transport is not used for commuting. The number of homes without a car has plummeted from 18% in 2011 to just 3.5% today.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, with about 40% falling into each category. Only 3.5% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below both the Victorian and national rates.
3.5% ▼ -80.8%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Paynesville splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (40%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. While 13.7% of people now work from home—a rise of 8.9 percentage points since 2011—this is still far below the Victoria state average.
13.7% ▲ +186.9%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
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 Paynesville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215068/paynesville/topic/transport