1.4% ▼ -86.1%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Highfields · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Highfields
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few households in Highfields go without a car, making it much more vehicle-reliant than most similar areas. Almost every home owns at least one vehicle, and the number of car-free households has fallen sharply since 2011 to just 1.4%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 45.9% owning two and 18.4% owning three. This high level of ownership is reflected in the fact that only 1.4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Highfields, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 70.6% of residents, while only 0.1% use public transport. Those working from home rose to 9.5% since 2011, though this is still far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
9.5% ▲ +166.8%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.1% ▼ -54.1%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.1%
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 Highfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL313007/highfields/topic/transport