Araluen · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Araluen

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Almost every household in Araluen relies on a car to get around, as there are no public transport options in the area. The vast majority of residents use a vehicle for their daily needs, with 40.2% of homes owning two cars.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Very few homes lack a car, with only 3.3% of households without one. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.

3.3% ▲ +7.6%

Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Araluen, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 56.8% of people driving and 17.9% working from home. No one in the area uses public transport to commute, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.

17.9% ▼ -8.5%

Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 19.5%
  • 2016: 13.3%
  • 2021: 17.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 5.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Araluen, Car (driver) is the majority at 70%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in Araluen. This means the area has far fewer weekly departures per 1,000 people than the state average.

0.00

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

0.0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Araluen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10071/araluen/topic/transport