Bruce Rock · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Bruce Rock

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

Most people in Bruce Rock rely on their own cars to get around, with nearly 40% of homes owning just one vehicle. It is a place where very few residents work from home, and almost no one uses public transport to commute.

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📍 Bruce Rock, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 4.4% of homes lack a motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen since 2011 and is well below the national average. Most households keep one or two cars, though 8.7% of homes have four or more.

4.4% ▼ -49.3%

Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.6%
  • 2016: 9.5%
  • 2021: 4.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Bruce Rock splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 4 or more at 9%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 63.8% of residents, while working from home is far less common here than across Australia at just 4.6%. Public transport use is very low at 1.5%, though this is slightly higher than in 2011.

4.6% ▼ -21.9%

Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.9%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 4.6%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

1.5% ▲ —

Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 1.5%
  • 2021: 1.5%

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 Bruce Rock, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Walked is next at 12%.

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 Bruce Rock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521009/bruce-rock/topic/transport