1.7% ▼ -81.4%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Fernvale · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Fernvale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 1.7% of homes in Fernvale have no motor vehicle, making it an area where car ownership is much more common than in most other places. This heavy reliance on cars is reflected in how people travel for work, with the vast majority driving themselves.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 44.8% owning two and 17.7% owning three. This high level of ownership is a growing trend, as the share of homes without a vehicle fell by 7.6 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Fernvale, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 68.6% of people being the driver. Public transport use is very low at 0.4%, while those working from home rose to 8.5% by 2021, though this remains far below the national figure.
8.5% ▲ +68.6%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -60.0%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.4%
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).
More for Fernvale
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Fernvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315035/fernvale/topic/transport