3.7% ▲ —
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Owen · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Owen
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero people in Owen used public transport to get to work in 2021. This highlights a heavy reliance on private cars in a place where almost every household owns at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 3.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure well below both the state and national rates. While this is an increase since 2011, the most common situation is having two vehicles, found in 36.7% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Owen splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nearly 70% of workers drive themselves to work, while the 6.2% who work from home is far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use has fallen since 2011 to reach 0.0%.
6.2% ▼ -21.1%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Owen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422038/owen/topic/transport