1.1% ▼ -79.3%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Muchea · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Muchea
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Muchea depends on a car to get around, with only 1.1% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This heavy reliance on driving is reflected in the way people commute, where the vast majority of workers use a car to reach their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here own multiple cars, with 83.9% of households having two or more vehicles. Very few people get by without a car, and this figure has fallen by 4.4 points since 2011, leaving the area well below the national average for vehicle-free homes.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Muchea, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 4 or more (25%) and 3 vehicles (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 66.6% of residents, while 9.7% now work from home, a figure that rose from zero in 2011. Use of public transport is very low at 0.8%, which is well below the state figure.
9.7% ▲ —
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -97.7%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
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 Muchea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521034/muchea/topic/transport