4.8% ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Murray · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Murray
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people in Murray use public transport to get to work compared to other similar areas. Most residents rely on their own cars, with only 4.8% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This level of car ownership is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private cars are common here, with 38.3% of homes owning two vehicles and 15.1% owning three. The proportion of homes without a car has fallen slightly since 2011 to reach 4.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Murray, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 68.2% of people. Only 0.3% use public transport, a figure that has fallen by 5.0 percentage points since 2011, while 9.2% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
9.2% ▲ +220.5%
Lower than 70% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -94.0%
Lower than 97% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
While the area has 385 public transport stops and 44 routes, these are almost exclusively buses. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure, at 158.4 compared to 1,313.6 in New South Wales.
385
Higher than 78% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.48
Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
158.4
Lower than 86% of state electorate 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).
44
Higher than 80% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Murray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10056/murray/topic/transport