Sunset Strip · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Sunset Strip

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

Far fewer households lack a car in Sunset Strip than in the state or national average. This is a highly car-dependent area where the vast majority of residents rely on a vehicle to get around.

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📍 Sunset Strip, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 4% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the Victorian average of 7.6% and has fallen since 2011. Nearly half of all households own one car, while 32.3% have two.

4.0% ▼ -37.2%

Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.3%
  • 2016: 2.8%
  • 2021: 4.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Sunset Strip, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (14%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 58.2% as the driver. While 12.7% of the workforce now works from home—a rise of 11 points since 2011—this is still far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.

12.7% ▲ +520.5%

Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.1%
  • 2016: 3.0%
  • 2021: 12.7%

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

2.3% ▲ +47.7%

Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.5%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 2.3%

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 Sunset Strip, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Worked at home 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 Sunset Strip [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221068/sunset-strip/topic/transport