5.4% ▲ +120.9%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Violet Town · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Violet Town
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport or work from home in Violet Town compared to the state and national figures. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around the town and reach their jobs. While car ownership is high, about 5.4% of homes have no motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have at least one car, with 42.4% owning one and 32.7% owning two. However, the proportion of homes without a vehicle rose 2.9 percentage points since 2011 to reach 5.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Violet Town, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the main way to get to work for 58.5% of residents, while 12.2% work from home. No one used public transport to commute in 2021, a small drop from 1.6% in 2011.
12.2% ▲ +151.2%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 12.2%
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: 1.6%
- 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 Violet Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221077/violet-town/topic/transport