Trentham · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Trentham

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

Working from home is far more common in Trentham than in most similar areas, with 38.3% of the workforce doing so. This reliance on home-based work is paired with very high car ownership across the town.

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📍 Trentham, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Very few homes here go without a car; only 2.6% have none, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%. Most households own one or two vehicles, while 16.4% have three or more.

2.6% ▼ -51.0%

Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.3%
  • 2016: 4.4%
  • 2021: 2.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Trentham, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (37%) and 3 vehicles (11%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Almost 40% of workers travel by car, but another 38.3% work from home, a figure that rose 29 points since 2011. Public transport use has vanished, with 0.0% of people now using it to get to work.

38.3% ▲ +325.9%

Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 9.0%
  • 2016: 11.2%
  • 2021: 38.3%

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.

How people get to work

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Trentham splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (46%) and Worked at home (44%), with Walked at 6%.

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 Trentham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221074/trentham/topic/transport