Milawa · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Milawa

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

Not a single home in Milawa (L) is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This total reliance on cars defines the local transport landscape, where almost every household owns at least one vehicle to get around.

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📍 Milawa, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 44.4% of homes having two vehicles and another 25.3% owning three. This is a significant shift since 2011, when 6.8% of households had no vehicle.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.8%
  • 2016: 3.4%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Milawa, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (25%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 68% of residents, while 15.2% work from home, a figure that rose 11 points since 2011. No one in the area uses public transport to commute, which is well below the Australian figure.

15.2% ▲ +259.7%

Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.2%
  • 2016: 9.9%
  • 2021: 15.2%

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: 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.

How people get to work

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In Milawa, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 17%.

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 Milawa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222054/milawa/topic/transport