Eton · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Eton

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

Almost every household in Eton (L) relies on a car to get around, with 0.0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This makes the area far more car-dependent than the national average. Daily life here centres on private transport, as very few people work from home or use public transit.

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📍 Eton, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is nearly universal, with 33.3% of homes owning two vehicles and 20.2% owning three. The proportion of households without a car has fallen by 4.4 percentage points since 2011 to reach 0.0%, a figure well below the national average of 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.4%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Eton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way people get to work, with 69.0% as the driver. Only 3.5% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Public transport use is also low, with only 2.1% of workers using it, a trend that has fallen slightly since 2011.

3.5% ▲ +13.8%

Lower than 84% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.1%
  • 2016: 3.6%
  • 2021: 3.5%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

2.1% ▼ -31.7%

Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.1%
  • 2016: 1.5%
  • 2021: 2.1%

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 Eton, Car (driver) is the majority at 90%; Worked at home is next at 5%.

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 Eton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322042/eton/topic/transport