Dookie · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Dookie

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

Almost every home in Dookie now has a car, with the share of households without a vehicle falling to 0.0% since 2011. This makes the town far more dependent on private transport than the average Victorian community.

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📍 Dookie, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 37% of homes owning two vehicles and another 27.8% owning three or more. No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 4.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Dookie, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 66.1% of residents, and no one uses public transport. While the number of people working from home rose to 10.7% since 2011, this is still far below the Victorian average of 25.7%.

10.7% ▲ +95.2%

Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.5%
  • 2016: 4.2%
  • 2021: 10.7%

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: 1.8%
  • 2016: 4.2%
  • 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 Dookie, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Dookie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222020/dookie/topic/transport