Aussies own 870,105 registered motorcycles
Road-registered motorcycle ownership slows but is still growing, according to the Australian Bureau of StatisticsMotorcycles account for around 4.5 per cent of the national road fleet, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) census of registered vehicle ownership.
The ABS data shows road-registered motorcycles grew by fewer than 10,000 bikes from 2018 to 2019 to stand at 870,105 machines.
That translates into 35 owners per 1000 head of population. To put that in perspective, there are 578 passenger car owners and 132 light commercials for every 1000 bodies.
Motorcycles are most popular in WA, where there are 47 registered bikes per 1000 people, against 41 in Queensland and 39 in Tasmania. The Northern Territory has the fewest bikes per head, with just one in 40 Territorians owning a road-registered bike (the dirt bike story would be slightly different).
Intriguingly 78 motorcycles are registered as diesels. Another 662 fit under the “other” heading, the majority of which will be electric we suspect. That figure is down from 821 last year.
The age of the average motorcycle is now 10.8 years, against 9.9 years for passenger vehicles and 10.2 years for light commercials.
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