3.5% ▲ —
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Murtoa · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Murtoa
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people live without a car in Murtoa than in the typical Victorian or Australian home. Most households own at least one motor vehicle, making the area heavily reliant on private transport for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 3.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the state figure of 7.6%. While this is around the middle for similar areas, the number of carless homes has risen by 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Murtoa splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way people get to work here, with 74.1% as the driver. Working from home is far below the national figure at 5.5%, while the 1.4% who use public transport is much higher than in most similar areas.
5.5% ▼ -14.1%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▲ —
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Murtoa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221051/murtoa/topic/transport