Blackwood · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Blackwood

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

Over half of working residents in Blackwood (L) drive themselves to work, making the car the primary way people get around. This is a highly mobile area where almost every household owns a vehicle and a significant number of people now work from home.

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📍 Blackwood, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Not a single home in Blackwood (L) is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Victorian average of 7.6%. Most households have one or two cars, with 42% owning one and 35.8% owning two.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 7.0%
  • 2016: 5.5%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Blackwood, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (38%) and 3 vehicles (13%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home has become much more common here, rising 23 points since 2011 to reach 28.5%. Public transport use is non-existent at 0.0%, which is a little below the state figure.

28.5% ▲ +393.9%

Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.8%
  • 2016: 2.4%
  • 2021: 28.5%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 4.8%
  • 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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In Blackwood, Car (driver) is the majority at 60%; Worked at home is next at 34%.

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 Blackwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222008/blackwood/topic/transport