Toora · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Toora

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

Most households in Toora (L) have at least one motor vehicle, though the area sees far more people working from home than most similar places. This shift toward home-based work is a key feature of the local landscape, with 17.4% of workers now operating from their own residence.

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📍 Toora, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 50.5% of homes have one vehicle and 34.7% have two. While 5.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most areas, this figure is a little below the Victorian average and has risen since 2011.

5.8% ▲ —

Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 5.5%
  • 2021: 5.8%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Toora, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 49%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (7%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, a figure that fell 4.5 percentage points since 2011. Most people drive themselves to work (60.9%), while those working from home have increased significantly to 17.4% since 2011.

17.4% ▲ +286.1%

Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.5%
  • 2016: 3.0%
  • 2021: 17.4%

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: 4.5%
  • 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 Toora, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 21%.

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 Toora [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222093/toora/topic/transport