Brunswick · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Brunswick

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

Private cars are the primary way people get around in Brunswick (L), where only 2.7% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure, reflecting a community that relies heavily on driving for daily life.

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📍 Brunswick, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home here has a car, and 52.6% of households own two or more vehicles. The number of car-less homes has dropped significantly, falling 7.2 percentage points since 2011.

2.7% ▼ -72.7%

Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 9.8%
  • 2016: 3.5%
  • 2021: 2.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Brunswick splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 18%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the dominant choice for workers, with 67.8% as the main driver and another 5.5% as passengers. Very few people work from home (1.4%), a figure that is far below the national average and has fallen since 2011.

1.4% ▼ -65.0%

Lower than 94% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.9%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 1.4%

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

2.7% ▲ —

Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 2.7%

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 Brunswick, Car (driver) is the majority at 83%; Car (passenger) is next at 7%.

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 Brunswick [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521010/brunswick/topic/transport