Googong · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Googong

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

Almost every home in Googong has a car, with a tiny 0.2% of households lacking a motor vehicle. This makes the area much more car-dependent than most, with the vast majority of residents relying on private transport to get around.

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📍 Googong, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households here own two cars, and the number of homes without a vehicle has fallen 13 points since 2011. This rate is now well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.

0.2% ▼ -98.8%

Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 12.8%
  • 2016: 11.3%
  • 2021: 0.2%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Googong, 2 vehicles is the majority at 63%; 1 vehicle is next at 18%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 70.4% of residents. While 10.5% of people work from home, this is far below the national figure of 21%.

10.5% ▲ +129.0%

Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.6%
  • 2016: 3.0%
  • 2021: 10.5%

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

0.6% ▲ +231.5%

Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.2%
  • 2016: 0.4%
  • 2021: 0.6%

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 Googong, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Googong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114012/googong/topic/transport