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How many bikes on Aussie roads?
A census conducted in January, 2011, reveals that there were nearly 680,000 motorcycles in Australia, with plenty of other interesting observations, tooMotorcycle registrations have shown the largest growth in the last five years out of all vehicles on Australian roads, according to a census conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on January 31, 2011.
According to the Motor Vehicle Census (MVS) data, 678,790 motorcycles were registered on that date, a 48.5 percent rise vis-à-vis the last MVS, held in 2006.
The only other vehicle category that comes close to that sort of increase is light rigid trucks (up 26.2 percent), which is ahead of light commercial vehicles (up 20.4), buses (up 17.2), non-freight carrying trucks (up 12.1), and passenger vehicles (up 11.9).
And some other MVS observations:
- Motorcycles accounted for 4.1 percent of all vehicles registered in Australia for the 2011 MVC, up from 3.2 in 2006;
- The average age of Australia’s motorcycles is nine years, with Northern Territory (6.9) and Tasmania (10.4) the bookends;
- The average number of road-going motorcycles per 1000 population in Australia is 30, with Western Australia the pacesetter on 43;
- Of the 678,790 motorcycles registered, 52,990 are fired by leaded fuel, 625,352 by unleaded, one by diesel, and 847 by LPG/dual fuel/other. There were two diesel bikes in the last census;
- Of the 678,790 motorcycles registered, 117,094 were manufactured before 1995, 90,320 between 1996-2000, 162,423 between 2001-2005, 26,605 between 2006-2010, 541 in 2011, and 5528 weren’t specified.
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