Numurkah · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Numurkah

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

Private cars are the primary way of getting around Numurkah, with 70.4% of workers driving themselves to work. While most homes have at least one vehicle, the area has seen a small increase in households without a car since 2011.

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📍 Numurkah, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 75% of homes here have one or two motor vehicles, while 6.7% of households have no car. This figure is higher than in most similar areas, though it is about the same as the state and national figures.

6.7% ▲ +21.6%

Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.5%
  • 2016: 4.0%
  • 2021: 6.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Numurkah, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (12%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Very few people use public transport for their commute, a figure that fell to 0.4% since 2011. Meanwhile, 6.6% of people work from home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.

6.6% ▲ +6.1%

Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.2%
  • 2016: 5.1%
  • 2021: 6.6%

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

0.4% ▼ -82.0%

Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.0%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 0.4%

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 Numurkah, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 8%.

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 Numurkah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215065/numurkah/topic/transport