5.7% ▼ -19.0%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Collie · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Collie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Collie than in the rest of Australia, where the national figure is 21%. This town relies heavily on cars to get around, though the number of households without a vehicle has fallen to 5.7%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 36.6% owning two vehicles. The proportion of households with no motor vehicle is slightly higher than most similar areas, though it has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Collie splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 66.8% of people as the driver. Only 2% of workers stay home for their job, a figure that is far below the national average and has barely changed in a decade.
2.0% ▲ +38.5%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.2% ▼ -42.6%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Collie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL514001/collie/topic/transport