Currarong · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Currarong

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

Every single home in Currarong now has a motor vehicle, making the area entirely dependent on cars for daily travel. This shift is stark, as the number of car-free households fell by 30 percentage points since 2011 to reach zero.

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📍 Currarong, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have two cars, with 46.5% of households owning two and another 34.3% having one. This means the local rate of homes without a vehicle is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 30.2%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Currarong, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (10%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Getting to work relies heavily on the car, which 57.3% of workers use as a driver. Public transport use has dropped to 0.0% since 2011, while those working from home rose to 24.9%, a figure well above the Australian average.

24.9% ▲ +98.9%

Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 12.5%
  • 2016: 5.6%
  • 2021: 24.9%

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: 8.1%
  • 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 Currarong, Car (driver) is the majority at 66%; Worked at home is next at 29%.

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 Currarong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122046/currarong/topic/transport