3.1% ▼ -16.9%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Smiths Beach · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Smiths Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A striking 26.1% of working residents in Smiths Beach now work from home, a figure well above the national average. This shift is part of a broader trend where the area has become highly dependent on private cars for travel. Very few households get by without a vehicle, and public transport is not used for commuting.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Smiths Beach has a motor vehicle, with 3.1% having none, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%. Most households own one or two cars, while 11.5% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Smiths Beach, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (37%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nearly half of the workforce drives to work, and no one uses public transport to commute. The number of people working from home has risen sharply since 2011, climbing 21 points to reach 26.1%.
26.1% ▲ +426.0%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 26.1%
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: 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 Smiths Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222085/smiths-beach/topic/transport