6.2% ▼ -40.4%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Howard · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Howard
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car reliance is a defining feature for Howard, where most households own multiple vehicles and almost no one uses public transport to get to work. While the number of homes without a car has fallen to 6.2% since 2011, the area remains heavily dependent on private travel for daily trips.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, though 4.7% of households own four or more. The proportion of homes with no motor vehicle is 6.2%, which is higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Howard, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is almost entirely done by car, with 65.3% of people driving. No one in Howard uses public transport to commute, and the 7.3% who work from home is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
7.3% ▲ +163.5%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Howard [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315043/howard/topic/transport