Home Island · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Home Island

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

Far more people use public transport to get to work in Home Island than in most similar areas. This small community is heavily reliant on vehicles and shared transit, with no one currently working from home.

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📍 Home Island, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Not a single home in Home Island is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. Most households are heavily equipped, with 30.3% owning four or more vehicles.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 9.0%
  • 2016: 12.7%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Home Island, the largest group is 4 or more at 32%, followed by 2 vehicles (27%) and 3 vehicles (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Public transport use is far above the national figure at 18.4%, though this is 6.0 percentage points lower than in 2011. No one works from home, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas.

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Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 2.6%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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

18.4% ▼ -24.6%

Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 24.4%
  • 2016: 21.2%
  • 2021: 18.4%

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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Home Island splits fairly evenly between Walked (33%) and Car (driver) (31%), with Bicycle at 18%.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Home Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL922001/home-island/topic/transport