Peachester · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Peachester

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Not a single home in Peachester (L) is without a motor vehicle, making it much more car-dependent than most areas. This total reliance on cars is reflected in the way people travel and work, with very few using public transport.

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📍 Peachester, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 83.3% of homes owning three or more vehicles. This is a sharp change since 2011, when 47.5% of households had no car.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 47.5%
  • 2016: 8.2%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Peachester, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 3 vehicles (21%) and 4 or more (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Private cars are the primary way to get to work, as 0.0% of residents use public transport. Meanwhile, 14.5% of the workforce now work from home, a figure that has risen 12 points since 2011.

14.5% ▲ +423.4%

Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.8%
  • 2016: 3.9%
  • 2021: 14.5%

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: 3.3%
  • 2016: 0.9%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Peachester, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 19%.

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 Peachester [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321081/peachester/topic/transport