Upper Orara · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Upper Orara

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

Not a single home in Upper Orara is without a motor vehicle. This makes cars essential for life here, as the area has no public transport routes or stops to rely on.

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📍 Upper Orara, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own multiple cars, with 83.3% of homes having two or more vehicles. This is well below the national figure for homes without a car, which is 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.6%
  • 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 Upper Orara, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 4 or more (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 67.3% of people as the driver. Those working from home make up 16.3% of the workforce, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.

16.3% ▲ +39.8%

Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 11.7%
  • 2016: 9.6%
  • 2021: 16.3%

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: 0.8%
  • 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 Upper Orara, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

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 the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 0.0, which is far below the state figure.

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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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Upper Orara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14059/upper-orara/topic/transport