1.7% ▼ -42.2%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Serpentine · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Serpentine
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Public transport use has plummeted in Serpentine since 2011, falling from 13.6% to just 2.1%. This shift highlights a growing reliance on cars in a place where almost every home now owns at least one motor vehicle. While more people are working from home, the car remains the dominant way to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with only 1.7% of homes lacking a vehicle—a figure well below the national 7.4%. Most households are well-equipped, as 82.4% of homes own two or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Serpentine, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 4 or more (22%) and 3 vehicles (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 61.3% of residents, while 8.3% now work from home, a figure that has risen since 2011. Only 2.1% of workers use public transport, which is a little below the state figure.
8.3% ▲ +950.2%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.1% ▼ -84.9%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Serpentine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515032/serpentine/topic/transport