2.7% ▼ -75.6%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Capel · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Capel
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Capel relies on a car, with only 2.7% of homes having no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most residents use a car for their daily travel, as working from home and public transport are very uncommon here.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high, with 39.4% of homes owning two vehicles and 20% owning three. The proportion of homes without a car has fallen sharply since 2011, dropping from 11.1% to just 2.7%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Capel, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 69.8% of people commuting as the driver. Very few people work from home at 3.9%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
3.9% ▲ +9.0%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▼ -71.5%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Capel [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515005/capel/topic/transport