5.9% ▼ -39.0%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tongala · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Tongala
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer homes in Tongala are without a car than a decade ago, though most people still rely heavily on driving. While car ownership has improved, the way people get to work has stayed mostly the same, with very few residents using public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 5.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 7.6%. This is an improvement from 2011, when 9.7% of households lacked a vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tongala splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Zero per cent of the workforce uses public transport, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.1%. Most people drive, while only 5.4% work from home, a figure far below the 21% national average.
5.4% ▲ +89.3%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 5.4%
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: 0.3%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 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 Tongala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215084/tongala/topic/transport