1.5% ▼ -86.6%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Virginia · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Virginia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Virginia now owns a car, with the share of vehicle-free homes plummeting by 9.5 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area far more reliant on private transport than the state or national average. Most residents depend on their own cars to get around and get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 1.5% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%. The area is heavily car-dependent, with nearly half of all households owning two vehicles and another 20.4% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Virginia, 2 vehicles is the majority at 50%; 3 vehicles is next at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to travel, with 76.8% of workers commuting as a driver. Very few people use public transport at 0.4%, and the 5.4% who work from home is far below the national figure of 21%.
5.4% ▲ +91.0%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -49.1%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Virginia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415044/virginia/topic/transport