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.
Bruce Rock · Urban Centre
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.
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.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bruce Rock splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 4 or more at 9%.
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.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▲ —
Higher than 84% 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 Bruce Rock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521009/bruce-rock/topic/transport