0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Charleston · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Charleston
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A tiny fraction of people in Charleston live without a car, making it stand out compared to most similar areas. Every single home in the area now has at least one motor vehicle, with the vast majority of residents relying on cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, as 0.0% of homes lack a vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are well-equipped, with 50.5% owning two vehicles and 14.4% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Charleston, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 3 vehicles is next at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 75.3% of residents, while 9.0% work from home, a figure far below the Australian average of 21.0%. Public transport use is very low at 1.7%, though this has risen slightly since 2011.
9.0% ▲ +119.1%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.7% ▲ —
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Charleston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422013/charleston/topic/transport