3.7% ▼ -57.9%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alpha · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Alpha
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
No one in Alpha used public transport to get to work in 2021, highlighting a total reliance on private travel. Most households here own multiple cars, and very few people work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is common, with 40.7% of homes having one vehicle and 33.3% having two. Only 3.7% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national rate and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Alpha, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 53.9% of residents, though 19.1% walk. Only 5.0% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
5.0% ▼ -10.6%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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.
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 Alpha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322002/alpha/topic/transport