Raymond Island · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Raymond Island

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

Almost every home in Raymond Island owns a car, making private vehicles the primary way people get around. The area has seen a massive shift in how people work, with the number of residents working from home jumping 18 percentage points since 2011.

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📍 Raymond Island, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Very few households get by without a car, with only 1.7% of homes owning no motor vehicle. This is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6% and represents a 7.4 percentage point drop since 2011.

1.7% ▼ -81.1%

Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 9.1%
  • 2016: 5.8%
  • 2021: 1.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Raymond Island splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (43%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common for 21.1% of the workforce, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. While 25.5% of people drive to work, a small number of residents (3.1%) now use public transport, up from nothing in 2011.

21.1% ▲ +672.9%

Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.7%
  • 2016: 15.0%
  • 2021: 21.1%

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

3.1% ▲ —

Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 2.1%
  • 2021: 3.1%

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 Raymond Island, the largest group is Car (driver) at 45%, followed by Worked at home (37%) and Walked (10%).

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 Raymond Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221060/raymond-island/topic/transport