2.5% ▼ -28.0%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Walkerston · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Walkerston
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost three quarters of working residents in Walkerston drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars. The area is very car-dependent, with only 2.5% of homes without a motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 42.5% owning two vehicles and 20.1% owning three. The proportion of homes with no car has fallen slightly since 2011 and remains much lower than in most other areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Walkerston, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here at 3.4%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%. While 1.3% use public transport to get to work, this is actually much higher than in most similar areas.
3.4% ▼ -39.4%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Walkerston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315096/walkerston/topic/transport