1.8% ▼ -84.3%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dodges Ferry - Lewisham · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Dodges Ferry - Lewisham
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge drop in the number of carless homes is the biggest change in Dodges Ferry - Lewisham since 2011. Only 1.8% of households now have no motor vehicle, meaning almost every home in the area relies on a car to get around. This high level of vehicle ownership defines how people move and work in the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 40% of homes here have two vehicles, and about 29% have one. Very few households live without a car, a figure that is well below the state and national averages.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Dodges Ferry - Lewisham, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 68.5% of people. While 8.0% now work from home—an increase since 2011—this is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
8.0% ▲ +284.3%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▼ -47.4%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Dodges Ferry - Lewisham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL614001/dodges-ferry-lewisham/topic/transport