3.9% ▼ -2.7%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rutherglen · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Rutherglen
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Rutherglen compared to the state or national figures. Most residents rely heavily on cars to get around, with very few using public transport for their daily travel. This creates a transport pattern that is much more car-dependent than the typical Victorian town.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high here, with 37.6% of homes having two vehicles and 8.1% owning four or more. Only 3.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Rutherglen splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 69.1% of residents, while 9.2% work from home. Public transport use has fallen to 0.0%, leaving it well below the national figure.
9.2% ▲ +195.9%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 9.2%
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: 1.9%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 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 Rutherglen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215076/rutherglen/topic/transport