Orchard Hills · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Orchard Hills

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

A massive 30 percentage point jump in working from home since 2011 defines the shift in Orchard Hills (L). This area has become almost entirely dependent on cars, with not a single home lacking a motor vehicle in 2021.

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📍 Orchard Hills, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here has at least one vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% for those without a car. Most households are heavily equipped, with 33.1% owning four or more vehicles and 35.4% owning two.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 11.6%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Orchard Hills splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 4 or more (35%), with 3 vehicles at 24%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 32.1% of residents doing so—a figure far above the Australian average of 21.0%. No one uses public transport to get to work, while 45.4% of people drive themselves.

32.1% ▲ +1270.0%

Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.3%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 32.1%

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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In Orchard Hills, Car (driver) is the majority at 59%; Worked at home is next at 41%.

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 Orchard Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122104/orchard-hills/topic/transport