17.0% ▲ +2.8%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Picnic Bay · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Picnic Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes in Picnic Bay lack a motor vehicle than in most other areas, with 17% of households having no car. This makes the area stand out compared to the state and national figures. While most residents still rely on cars, there is a growing trend of people working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 17% of homes here have no motor vehicle, a rate well above the national figure of 7.4%. This proportion has barely changed since 2011. Over half of all households own a single vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Picnic Bay, 1 vehicle is the majority at 51%; 2 vehicles is next at 24%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has become more common, rising to 15% since 2011. While 29.3% of workers drive a car, 11.6% walk to work, and public transport use has grown slightly to 2%.
15.0% ▲ +97.6%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▲ —
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Picnic Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322097/picnic-bay/topic/transport