1.1% ▼ -33.5%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Meringandan West · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Meringandan West
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one in Meringandan West lacks a car, with only 1.1% of homes without a vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households here rely heavily on multiple cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of all homes have two vehicles, and over 34% have three or more. This high level of car ownership is consistent with only 1.1% of households having no motor vehicle at all.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Meringandan West, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 1 vehicle (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 73.4% of people driving. No one here uses public transport, and while 7.1% of people work from home, this is far below the national figure of 21%.
7.1% ▲ +160.5%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 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 Meringandan West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315060/meringandan-west/topic/transport