6.9% ▼ -52.3%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Murwillumbah · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Murwillumbah
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Cars are essential for daily life in Murwillumbah, where the vast majority of residents rely on private vehicles to get around. While a small number of households live without a car, the overall trend shows a strong shift toward vehicle ownership over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have one or two cars, while 6.9% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is much higher than in most similar areas, although the figure has fallen 7.6 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Murwillumbah splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 66.2% of people, and 10% work from home. Very few people use public transport at 0.4%, which is a little below the national figure and has fallen since 2011.
10.0% ▲ +60.4%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -70.6%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
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 Murwillumbah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114021/murwillumbah/topic/transport