Moruya Heads · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Moruya Heads

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

About 67% of workers in Moruya Heads drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on cars. Almost every home owns at least one vehicle, and the number of households without a car has fallen sharply since 2011. This makes car ownership nearly universal in the area.

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📍 Moruya Heads, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 0.7% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. This is a significant drop from 2011, with nearly 40% of households now owning two vehicles.

0.7% ▼ -90.3%

Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 7.2%
  • 2016: 1.8%
  • 2021: 0.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Moruya Heads splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Public transport is not used for commuting here, as the 0.0% figure is well below the Australian average of 3.1%. While working from home rose to 11.9% since 2011, this remains far below the New South Wales rate of 31%.

11.9% ▲ +85.0%

Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.4%
  • 2016: 5.8%
  • 2021: 11.9%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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 Moruya Heads, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 14%.

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 Moruya Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121082/moruya-heads/topic/transport