Murray Downs · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Murray Downs

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

Three quarters of workers in Murray Downs drive themselves to work, reflecting a deep reliance on private cars. This is a place where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the state and national averages.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in the area has a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales and Australian figures for homes without a car. Most homes have two vehicles, while nearly 16% own four or more.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Murray Downs, 2 vehicles is the majority at 55%; 1 vehicle is next at 19%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 75.6% of people as drivers and 5.8% as passengers. Very few people work from home at 7.1%, a figure far below the state and national averages.

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Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 8.1%
  • 2021: 7.1%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 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 Murray Downs, Car (driver) is the majority at 86%; Worked at home is next at 8%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the New South Wales figure.

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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).

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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 Murray Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12863/murray-downs/topic/transport