7.1% ▲ +627.1%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Miles · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Miles
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A sharp drop in public transport use is the main story for Miles, where only 0.9% of workers now use it to get to work. While most residents rely on cars, the number of homes without a motor vehicle has risen to 7.1%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of all homes in Miles have just one motor vehicle, while 31.5% have two. The proportion of households with no vehicle rose 6.1 percentage points since 2011, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Miles, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 67.9% of people, with 9.6% walking. Only 3.8% work from home, a figure far below the national average, while the use of public transport fell from 8.8% in 2011 to just 0.9%.
3.8% ▲ +394.2%
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -89.8%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Miles [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315062/miles/topic/transport