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.
Brookton · Urban Centre
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.
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.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brookton splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
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.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
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