5.4% ▲ —
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Merrigum · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Merrigum
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 75% of working residents in Merrigum drive themselves to work. This reliance on cars is reflected in the home garages, where 42.5% of households own two vehicles. While most residents have reliable transport, the number of homes without a car has risen to 5.4% since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 15.6% owning three and 8.1% owning four or more. While 5.4% of households have no motor vehicle—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is still a little below the Victorian average of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Merrigum, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport is not used for commuting here, falling from 4.0% in 2011 to 0.0% in 2021. Working from home is also uncommon at 5.4%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
5.4% ▲ +63.7%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 5.4%
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: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 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 Merrigum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222053/merrigum/topic/transport