0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
West Island · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in West Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in West Island now has at least one motor vehicle, a sharp change from 2011. This shift toward car ownership is paired with a rise in flexible work, with more people now working from home than a decade ago.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No homes in the area are without a car, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have one vehicle, while 25% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In West Island, 1 vehicle is the majority at 57%; 2 vehicles is next at 31%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is a common choice for 21.3% of workers, while 12.4% work from home, a figure that is well above the territory average. About 4.5% use public transport, which is a little above the national average.
12.4% ▲ +241.9%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.5% ▼ -46.7%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 4.5%
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 West Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL922003/west-island/topic/transport