2.6% ▲ —
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Egerton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Egerton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of the workforce in Mount Egerton (L) drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars for travel. This is a place where most households own multiple vehicles and very few people lack a car.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, with only 2.6% of homes having no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average of 7.4%. Most households have two or more vehicles, while 36.2% have exactly two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Egerton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (23%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common for 20.9% of residents, an increase of 7.4 percentage points since 2011. While most people drive, 2.5% now use public transport, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
20.9% ▲ +55.2%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.5% ▲ —
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Mount Egerton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222057/mount-egerton/topic/transport