Zero-Car Households: Urban, Single, and Low-Income?

This article unravels, by employing two binary logistic regressions, the socio-economic profiles of zero-car households in Flanders (Belgium) and sheds light on their residential environment. The employed dataset contains information regarding status car ownership all individuals with a home address Flanders. Furthermore, study explores proportion size voluntarily car-free car-less due to constraints within Flemish population. It does so classifying based spatial typology income decile these belong to. Results indicate that are overrepresented at bottom distribution overwhelmingly single. Children’s presence contributes likeliness household owns car. (urbanised, suburban, or rural) public transport minor but remain significant contributors. main contribution this is it highlights despite evidence strongly present urban areas, share living remote areas may not be underestimated. For total population Flanders, 5.47% face problems location lack car, which comes top dealing modest low budgets. Almost 37% lives an urbanised area has income. corresponds 8.4% group likely experiences latent demand for ownership. we can confidently identify as car-free, deliberately without minority account approximately 5% concludes notion involuntarily carlessness considered proxy vulnerability. However, planning centred around proximity, accompanied housing policy benefits low-income groups, act buffer against