0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Poowong · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Poowong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A shift toward working from home and a total move away from car-free living defines Poowong since 2011. Every single home in the area now has at least one motor vehicle. This makes the town heavily reliant on cars for daily travel, while traditional public transport has vanished from the morning commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal here, with 0.0% of homes lacking a vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%. Most households have multiple cars, and 11.0% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Poowong splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (33%) and 2 vehicles (29%), with 3 vehicles at 27%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 63.9% of residents, while 14.2% work from home, a figure that rose 10 points since 2011. Public transport use has fallen to 0.0%, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.
14.2% ▲ +241.0%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 14.2%
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: 3.8%
- 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 Poowong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222071/poowong/topic/transport