4.3% ▲ +42.5%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lowood · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Lowood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 71% of workers in Lowood drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. This reliance on private vehicles is reflected in the home data, where almost 38% of households own two cars. Public transport and working from home are far less common here than in the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 37.3% owning two and 15.8% owning three. Only 4.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lowood splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work, with just 0.2% using a bus. Working from home has risen to 7.0% since 2011, but this remains far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
7.0% ▲ +66.2%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -90.4%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 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 Lowood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315054/lowood/topic/transport