Curlewis · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Curlewis

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

Every single home in Curlewis (L) now has at least one motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars defines daily life here, as almost no one works from home or uses other options to get to their jobs.

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📍 Curlewis, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal, with 43.3% of homes owning two vehicles and 19.1% owning three. This is a huge shift from 2011, when nearly a quarter of households had no car.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 24.7%
  • 2016: 1.9%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Curlewis, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 73.7% of people being the driver. Very few people work from home at 3.0%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.

3.0% ▼ -23.0%

Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.9%
  • 2016: 1.2%
  • 2021: 3.0%

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

2.3% ▲ —

Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 2.3%

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.

How people get to work

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In Curlewis, Car (driver) is the majority at 88%; Car (passenger) is next at 4%.

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 Curlewis [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121029/curlewis/topic/transport