Carmel · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Carmel

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

Not a single home in Carmel (L) is without a motor vehicle, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas. This high level of car ownership is mirrored in the way people travel, with the vast majority relying on their own cars to get to work.

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📍 Carmel, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household here owns at least one vehicle, with 41.7% having two and 22.2% owning four or more. The proportion of homes without a car has fallen 4.0 points since 2011 to reach 0.0%, which is well below the state figure of 5.0%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Carmel, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 4 or more (23%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 75.2% of people as the driver and 5.0% as a passenger. Very few people work from home at 3.7%, and no one uses public transport to commute, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.

3.7% ▼ -30.0%

Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.3%
  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 2021: 3.7%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

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

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 Carmel, Car (driver) is the majority at 87%; Car (passenger) is next at 6%.

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 Carmel [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522010/carmel/topic/transport