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.
Talbot · Urban Centre
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.
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.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Talbot splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
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.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
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