6.7% ▼ -35.3%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Charlton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Charlton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 67% of workers in Charlton drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While most homes have at least one vehicle, the area has seen a drop in the number of households without a car since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. However, this is about the same as the Victorian and national figures, and the number has fallen by 3.7 percentage points over the last decade.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Charlton splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Charlton uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. Only 8.9% of people work from home—far below the state and national averages—though this has risen slightly since 2011.
8.9% ▲ +45.0%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 8.9%
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: 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.
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 Charlton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221018/charlton/topic/transport