1.3% ▼ -85.4%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sunshine Acres · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Sunshine Acres
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people rely on public transport than they did in 2011 in Sunshine Acres (L). Car ownership is very high here, with only 1.3% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This means the vast majority of residents depend on their own cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, as 87.1% of households own two or more vehicles. The number of homes without any motor vehicle is much lower than in most other areas and has fallen by 7.5 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sunshine Acres, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 4 or more (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 68.9% of people as the driver. Working from home is less common here than in the rest of the state or nation, and only 0.6% of workers use public transport.
9.0% ▼ -16.3%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -79.1%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Sunshine Acres [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321097/sunshine-acres/topic/transport