0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Meringandan · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Meringandan
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Meringandan (L) now has at least one motor vehicle. This makes the area vastly more dependent on cars than the state or national average, with most households owning two or more vehicles to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single household lacks a car, a figure that has fallen 14 points since 2011. More than half of all homes have two vehicles, while 33% own three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Meringandan, 2 vehicles is the majority at 51%; 1 vehicle is next at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 72.2% of residents, while 8.9% now work from home. Public transport use is non-existent here, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.
8.9% ▲ —
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 8.9%
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 Meringandan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322079/meringandan/topic/transport