6.8% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gatton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Gatton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge gap exists between Gatton and the rest of the country in how people get to work, with far fewer residents working from home. Most people here rely on cars for their daily travel, though a small number of households live without any motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.8% of Gatton homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. For those who do own cars, the most common setup is a single vehicle, found in 40.3% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Gatton, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 3% of workers in Gatton work from home, a figure far below the national mark of 21%. This reliance on travel is clear, as 67.5% of workers drive themselves to work and 1.0% use public transport.
3.0% ▲ +0.7%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -27.9%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 1.0%
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.
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 Gatton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314010/gatton/topic/transport