17.0% ▼ -50.9%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Timber Creek · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Timber Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly one in five homes in Timber Creek have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure. This lack of transport is a key feature of the area, although it has improved since 2011. Most people here rely on cars or walking to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 17% of households have no car, a rate much higher than the 7.4% seen across Australia. While this is among the highest levels for similar areas, the figure fell by 18 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Timber Creek, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 36%, followed by 2 vehicles (26%) and No vehicle (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is a common way to get to work for nearly 20% of residents, while no one uses public transport. Only 5% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
5.0% ▲ +55.1%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 5.0%
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.
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 Timber Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722031/timber-creek/topic/transport