6.6% ▲ +190.0%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Roma · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Roma
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A sharp drop in public transport use marks the changing travel habits in Roma. While most residents rely on cars, there has been a steady rise in the number of homes without any motor vehicle since 2011. This shift happens alongside a small increase in people working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have one or two cars, though 6.6% of Roma homes now have no motor vehicle. This is higher than most similar areas and has risen by 4.3 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Roma splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Relying on a car is the norm here, with 71.4% of workers driving and only 0.2% using public transport, a figure that fell since 2011. Only 4.2% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
4.2% ▲ +65.9%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -93.9%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Roma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314020/roma/topic/transport