4.5% ▼ -21.2%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rainbow · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Rainbow
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of the workers in Rainbow drive themselves to work, reflecting a high reliance on private transport. The area is very car-dependent, with only 4.5% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least two cars, with 34.7% owning two and another 28.9% owning three or more. The number of households without a car fell slightly since 2011 to 4.5%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Rainbow splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (34%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, and only 4.9% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Instead, 57.3% drive to work and 18.3% walk.
4.9% ▲ +25.2%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 4.9%
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: 2.6%
- 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 Rainbow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222077/rainbow/topic/transport