3.6% ▲ +70.7%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Robe · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero people in Robe used public transport to get to work in 2021, making cars the essential way to move around. Almost every home owns a motor vehicle, and the area has seen a sharp rise in people working from home since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes lack a car, with only 3.6% having no vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have two cars, while 14.9% own three.
3.6% ▲ +70.7%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Robe, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 63.2% of residents. While 11.8% now work from home — a jump of 11 points since 2011 — this is still well below the Australian average of 21%.
11.8% ▲ +2612.7%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Robe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415038/robe/topic/transport