4.0% ▲ —
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Peterborough · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Peterborough
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Peterborough relies on a car to get around. The area is heavily dependent on private vehicles, with very few people using public transport or living without a car. Most residents drive themselves to work, though more people have shifted to working from home over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high, with 41% of homes owning two vehicles and 12% owning three. Only 4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Peterborough, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (37%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 68% of residents, while 16.5% now work from home, a rise of 11 points since 2011. Public transport use has fallen to 0.0%, which is well below the national figure.
16.5% ▲ +221.8%
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 16.5%
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: 3.4%
- 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.
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 Peterborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222070/peterborough/topic/transport