5.1% ▲ +33.9%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Meeniyan · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Meeniyan
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one uses public transport to get to work in Meeniyan, making it far less common here than across Australia. The area relies heavily on private cars, though working from home has become much more popular over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 39.3% owning two and 16.8% owning three. While 5.1% of households have no motor vehicle, this is slightly lower than the 7.6% seen across Victoria.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Meeniyan, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 58.9% of people, while 16.2% work from home, a figure that rose 11 points since 2011. Public transport use has completely disappeared, falling from 3.4% in 2011 to 0.0% in 2021.
16.2% ▲ +207.5%
Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 16.2%
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: 3.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Meeniyan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221048/meeniyan/topic/transport