Brookton · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Brookton

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Much higher proportions of homes without a car than in most similar areas live in Brookton (L). While most households rely on vehicles, about 7.7% of homes have no motor vehicle. This highlights a distinct transport pattern for the area compared to other similar locations.

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📍 Brookton, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 7.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that rose by 4.9 points since 2011. Most households here own either one or two cars, with 36.6% having two and 35.1% having one.

7.7% ▲ +174.5%

Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.8%
  • 2016: 9.5%
  • 2021: 7.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Brookton splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nobody uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Most people drive to work (61.2%), while 12.4% walk and only 3.5% work from home.

3.5% ▲ +27.4%

Lower than 84% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.8%
  • 2016: 3.9%
  • 2021: 3.5%

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: 1.5%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Brookton, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Walked is next at 15%.

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 Brookton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521008/brookton/topic/transport