0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Powelltown · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Powelltown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Powelltown has at least one motor vehicle, making the area almost entirely reliant on cars for daily travel. This heavy dependence on private transport is reflected in the way people get to work, with very few using public options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 18.5% of homes owning four or more vehicles and 35.4% having two. This is much lower than the state and national figures for homes without a car, which sit at 7.6% and 7.4% respectively.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Powelltown, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 4 or more (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes by public transport, a figure that fell slightly since 2011. While 14.9% of people now work from home—a rise of 11 points over ten years—the most common way to get to work is still by driving, at 44.6%.
14.9% ▲ +289.9%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 14.9%
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: 1.4%
- 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 Powelltown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222074/powelltown/topic/transport