Tooradin · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Tooradin

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Almost every single household in Tooradin owns a car, with only 2.3% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This makes the area much more dependent on private transport than the rest of the state. Most residents rely on their own cars for daily travel, while public transport is virtually unused.

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📍 Tooradin, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are common here, as 41.5% of homes have two vehicles and another 22.7% have three. The proportion of homes without a car has fallen to 2.3%, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.

2.3% ▼ -49.2%

Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.6%
  • 2016: 6.7%
  • 2021: 2.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Tooradin, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 1 vehicle (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 65.6% of residents, while 0.0% use public transport. Working from home has risen to 13.1% since 2011, though this remains far below the Victorian average of 25.7%.

13.1% ▲ +462.2%

Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.3%
  • 2016: 5.5%
  • 2021: 13.1%

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: 1.1%
  • 2016: 0.8%
  • 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 Tooradin, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; 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 Tooradin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215085/tooradin/topic/transport