1.4% ▼ -56.9%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Williamstown · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Williamstown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Williamstown has a car, with only 1.4% of households lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below both the state and national figures, making car ownership a near-universal trait for the area. Most residents rely heavily on their own transport to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, as 41.1% of homes have two vehicles and another 12.4% have four or more. The proportion of homes without a car has fallen since 2011 and is now much lower than in most other areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Williamstown, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 72.3% of people commuting as a driver. Very few people use public transport at 0.3%, while 7.5% work from home, a figure that is far below the national average.
7.5% ▲ +30.4%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▲ +12.6%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Williamstown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415047/williamstown/topic/transport