6.8% ▼ -24.2%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Merredin · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Merredin
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer homes in Merredin are without a car now than in 2011, as the town relies heavily on private transport. Most residents depend on their own vehicles to get around, with very few people working from home or using public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas and slightly above the Western Australian figure. However, this has fallen from 8.9% in 2011, and the typical home now has one or two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Merredin splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 69.3% of people. Very few residents work from home at 4.1%, which is far below the national figure, and only 0.9% use public transport.
4.1% ▲ +11.3%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -2.9%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Merredin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515023/merredin/topic/transport