Ross · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Ross

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

Private cars are the primary way people get around Ross (L), where 60.6% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. Very few people rely on public transport, and the typical home is well-equipped with multiple vehicles.

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📍 Ross, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, with 34.5% owning two and 12.9% having four or more. Only 4.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

4.3% ▲ —

Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 2.3%
  • 2021: 4.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Ross splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 4 or more at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one uses public transport to get to work, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 3.1%. Meanwhile, 7.7% of people work from home, which is far below the 21% seen across Australia.

7.7% ▲ +60.8%

Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.8%
  • 2016: 6.5%
  • 2021: 7.7%

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: 6.5%
  • 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 Ross, Car (driver) is the majority at 68%; Walked is next at 12%.

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 Ross [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622021/ross/topic/transport