Paynesville · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Paynesville

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.

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📍 Paynesville, Urban Centre

Vehicles

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.

  • 2011: 18.0%
  • 2016: 8.5%
  • 2021: 3.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Paynesville splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (40%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.

Getting to work

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.

  • 2011: 4.8%
  • 2016: 2.5%
  • 2021: 13.7%

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: 2.7%
  • 2016: 1.2%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Paynesville, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; 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 Paynesville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215068/paynesville/topic/transport