2.5% ▼ -62.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mirani · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Mirani, where almost every household owns at least one vehicle. Very few people work from home, and the vast majority rely on driving to get to their jobs.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. Most households own two cars (46.5%), and this reliance on vehicles has grown as the number of car-less homes fell by 4.1 points since 2011.
2.5% ▼ -62.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Mirani, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 71.3% of people as the driver. Very few residents work from home (2.4%), which is far below the national figure, while the 2% who use public transport is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.4% ▼ -31.7%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▲ +104.8%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mirani [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315064/mirani/topic/transport