Falls Creek · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Falls Creek

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

Zero homes in Falls Creek lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales rate of 9.2%. This makes the area far more car-dependent than the state or national averages. Most households keep multiple cars to get around.

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📍 Falls Creek, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home here has at least one car, with 40.9% of households owning two vehicles and 16.1% owning four or more. The number of homes without a car has fallen 3.0 percentage points since 2011 to reach 0.0%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Falls Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 1 vehicle (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 60.8% of residents, while 14.6% work from home, a figure that rose 15 percentage points since 2011. No one uses public transport to commute, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.

14.6% ▲ —

Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 3.7%
  • 2021: 14.6%

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: 3.0%
  • 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 Falls Creek, Car (driver) is the majority at 72%; Worked at home is next at 17%.

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 Falls Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122057/falls-creek/topic/transport