13.9% ▲ +1975.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Derby · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Derby
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes in Derby lack a motor vehicle than in most similar areas. This trend has grown sharply, with 13.9% of households now without a car compared to just 0.7% in 2011. While many residents still rely on cars, a significant gap has emerged between the town and the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 13.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the state figure of 5.0%. For those who do own transport, 40.1% of households have one vehicle and 29.4% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Derby, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and No vehicle (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, a figure well below the national 3.1%. Most people drive, with 62.1% as the driver, while only 4.2% work from home, which is far below the Australian average of 21.0%.
4.2% ▲ +47.4%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 4.2%
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: 1.3%
- 2016: 0.2%
- 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 Derby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515010/derby/topic/transport