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.
Brunswick · Urban Centre
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.
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.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brunswick splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 18%.
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.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.7% ▲ —
Higher than 89% 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 Brunswick [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521010/brunswick/topic/transport