Kurrajong · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Kurrajong

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

A massive 15 percentage point gap separates the number of people working from home in Kurrajong from the national figure. This is a place where most households rely heavily on cars and a huge portion of the workforce avoids the daily commute entirely.

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📍 Kurrajong, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 40.5% of homes owning two vehicles and 13.6% having four or more. Only 1.8% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average of 9.2%.

1.8% ▼ -31.0%

Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.7%
  • 2016: 13.8%
  • 2021: 1.8%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Kurrajong, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common in Kurrajong, with 35.6% of people doing so, which is far above the Australian average of 21%. This trend has risen 29 points since 2011, while public transport use for work has fallen to just 0.7%.

35.6% ▲ +443.6%

Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.5%
  • 2016: 4.8%
  • 2021: 35.6%

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

0.7% ▼ -63.2%

Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.9%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.7%

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 Kurrajong, Car (driver) is the majority at 53%; Worked at home is next at 42%.

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 Kurrajong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115093/kurrajong/topic/transport