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Scotland's Census 2001 - Statistics on Travel to Work or Study

Number of cars available for commuters

Table 14A gives a breakdown, for resident workers/students in each council area, of how many cars people living in households had access to.

83 per cent of commuters who lived in households had at least one car available.  45 per cent had access to one car with a further 31 per cent living in households with two cars.

By local authority area of residence, the proportion with at least one car was highest in Aberdeenshire (94 per cent) and East Renfrewshire and East Dunbartonshire (both 93 per cent).  These were also the three council areas where residents were most likely to live in households with access to two or more cars.

Residents of Glasgow City were the least likely to have access to a car (63 per cent).  In addition, those living in Dundee City (73 per cent), City of Edinburgh (74 per cent) and Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire (both 78 per cent) were much less likely to have access to a car than travellers in Scotland as a whole.

Table 14B shows the same information as Table 14A, except that people are classified by the council area in which they worked or studied.

People who worked or studied in Aberdeenshire were the most likely to have access to a car (92 per cent).  This proportion was also high (over 90 per cent) for those working or studying in the Shetland Islands and the Orkney Islands.

Those working or studying in Glasgow City were less likely than those working or studying anywhere else in Scotland to have access to a car, although the relevant proportion (73 per cent) was much higher than for workers/students living in Glasgow City (63 per cent).  The proportions working/studying in West Dunbartonshire, Dundee City, Inverclyde and City of Edinburgh with access to a car were also lower than 80 per cent.

In many areas where there was a large overall net outflow of workers/students, there was a net inflow of people who did not have access to a car (Table 14C).  These areas included East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Perth & Kinross and Renfrewshire, indicating that people were less likely to travel to a place of work or study outwith these areas if they did not have access to a car.