Kurrajong Hills · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Kurrajong Hills

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

A massive 9.4 percentage point gap separates Kurrajong Hills from the national average for working from home. This is a car-reliant area where 30.4% of people work from their residence and virtually every household owns at least one motor vehicle.

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📍 Kurrajong Hills, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Not a single home in the area lacks a motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales and Australian averages. Most households are heavily equipped, with 83.2% owning two or more cars.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.5%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Kurrajong Hills, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 4 or more (27%) and 3 vehicles (23%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Almost no one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. Instead, 45.8% of workers drive and 30.4% work from home.

30.4% ▲ +264.0%

Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.4%
  • 2016: 8.2%
  • 2021: 30.4%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.9%
  • 2016: 0.9%
  • 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 Kurrajong Hills, Car (driver) is the majority at 57%; Worked at home is next at 38%.

Public transport access

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

While the area has more stops than most similar places, the actual service is far below the state average with only 42.6 weekly departures per 1,000 people. All public transport here is provided by buses.

5.67

Higher than 80% 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).

42.6

Higher than 62% 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).

0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the city takes typically 64 minutes. Residents face a long trek to public transport, with a walk to the nearest stop taking 54 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

54

Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.

Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.

64

Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.

Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
  • Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Kurrajong Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12228/kurrajong-hills/topic/transport