3.5% ▼ -43.0%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Trafalgar · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Few households in Trafalgar go without a car compared to similar areas. Only 3.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Victoria and Australia. This reliance on private transport is reflected in the way people get to work, with the vast majority driving.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 42% of households own two. The number of car-less homes has fallen by 2.6 points since 2011, leaving only 3.5% without a vehicle.
3.5% ▼ -43.0%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Trafalgar, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (35%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 67.5% of residents. While 9.6% of people now work from home—a rise of 7.8 points since 2011—this is still far below the national figure.
9.6% ▲ +446.3%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▲ +40.8%
Higher than 75% 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 Trafalgar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215086/trafalgar/topic/transport