2.9% ▼ -72.5%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gracemere · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few households in Gracemere go without a car compared to similar areas. Almost every home has at least one vehicle, and the number of car-less homes has fallen by 7.7 percentage points since 2011 to just 2.9%. This heavy reliance on cars is clear in the way people get to work.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least two cars, with 40.2% owning two and 15.1% owning three. Only 2.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Australian figure of 7.4%.
2.9% ▼ -72.5%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Gracemere, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 69.7% of people commuting as the driver. Very few people work from home at 3.4%, a figure far below the national 21.0%.
3.4% ▼ -10.2%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▲ +15.3%
Higher than 79% 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 Gracemere [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL313005/gracemere/topic/transport