2.0% ▼ -69.6%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tolga - West · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 71% of workers in Tolga - West (L) drive themselves to work. This is a highly vehicle-dependent area where very few households get by without a car. The number of homes with no motor vehicle has fallen since 2011 to just 2.0%.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 48.3% of homes owning two vehicles and 21.7% owning three. Only 2.0% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
2.0% ▼ -69.6%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Tolga - West, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 1 vehicle (17%).
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, while only 0.6% use public transport, a figure that has fallen since 2011. Those working from home rose to 8.0% over the last decade, though this remains far below the national figure.
8.0% ▲ +114.1%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -72.6%
Higher than 70% 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 Tolga - West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321105/tolga-west/topic/transport