19.1% ▲ +1344.3%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lamb Island · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Lamb Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 21.4% of people work from home in Lamb Island (L), which is one of the highest rates for this type of area. This shift toward remote work has happened alongside a sharp rise in the number of households living without a car.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly one in five homes (19.1%) have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure of 7.4%. This is a significant change, as the number of carless households rose 18 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lamb Island, 1 vehicle is the majority at 51%; 2 vehicles is next at 24%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is well above the state average at 12%. This is part of a broader trend where working from home has become much more common, rising 16 percentage points since 2011 to reach 21.4%.
21.4% ▲ +284.6%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
12.0% ▲ +1479.5%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 12.0%
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 Lamb Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321066/lamb-island/topic/transport