Kenthurst · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Kenthurst

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

Working from home is the most common way to get to work in Kenthurst, with 39% of the workforce doing so. This high rate of home-based work, combined with very low public transport use, makes the area heavily dependent on private vehicles.

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📍 Kenthurst, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home in Kenthurst has a car, with only 2.5% of households owning none. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%, though the proportion of car-free homes has risen slightly since 2011.

2.5% ▲ —

Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 2.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Kenthurst, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nearly 4 in 10 people work from home, which is far above the Australian figure of 21%. This trend has jumped 36 points since 2011, while public transport use has remained at 0%.

39.0% ▲ +1100.2%

Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.2%
  • 2016: 6.1%
  • 2021: 39.0%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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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Kenthurst splits fairly evenly between Worked at home (49%) and Car (driver) (49%), with Car (passenger) at 2%.

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 Kenthurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122070/kenthurst/topic/transport