11.1% ▲ —
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dinner Plain · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Dinner Plain
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 11% of homes in Dinner Plain have no motor vehicle, a figure well above the national average. This small area has a unique travel pattern where walking is the most common way to get to work. The number of people working from home has also risen sharply since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 11.1% of households here do not own a car, which is much higher than most similar areas and rose 11 percentage points since 2011. For those who do have vehicles, 40.7% of homes have one car and 37% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Dinner Plain splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the primary way to get to work for 34.1% of residents. While 18.7% of people now work from home—a rise of 16 percentage points since 2011—no one in the area uses public transport to commute.
18.7% ▲ +710.8%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 18.7%
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: 2.8%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 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 Dinner Plain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222018/dinner-plain/topic/transport