Talbot · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Talbot

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

A growing number of people now work from home in Talbot (L), where 14.4% of the workforce did so in 2021. This shift in how people earn a living is the most notable change in the area's transport and work patterns since 2011.

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📍 Talbot, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own at least one car, with 36.7% having two vehicles. Those without a motor vehicle make up 7.0% of homes, which is about the same as the national figure and has barely changed since 2011.

7.0% ▲ +5.5%

Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.7%
  • 2016: 2.1%
  • 2021: 7.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Talbot splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work, with 60% of people using a car as the driver. No one in the area uses public transport to commute, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.

14.4% ▲ +222.6%

Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.5%
  • 2016: 8.3%
  • 2021: 14.4%

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.

How people get to work

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In Talbot, Car (driver) is the majority at 68%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

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 Talbot [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222088/talbot/topic/transport