Boort · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Boort

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

A heavy reliance on cars defines daily life in Boort, where almost no one uses public transport to get to work. Most households own multiple vehicles to get around, as the typical home has two or more cars.

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📍 Boort, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 39% of homes in Boort have two vehicles, and another 20% have three. Very few households get by without a car, with only 5.2% owning none.

5.2% ▼ -9.4%

Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.8%
  • 2016: 6.1%
  • 2021: 5.2%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Boort, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Walking is a common way to get to work for 13.5% of residents, while 8.6% work from home, a figure that rose 4.8 percentage points since 2011. No one here commutes using public transport, which is well below the national figure.

8.6% ▲ +123.0%

Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.9%
  • 2016: 1.8%
  • 2021: 8.6%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 1.8%
  • 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 Boort, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Walked 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 Boort [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221008/boort/topic/transport