Little River · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Little River

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

Not a single home in Little River is without a motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars is a standout feature of the area, where the vast majority of residents depend on their own transport to get around.

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📍 Little River, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 84.5% of households owning two or more vehicles. This is well below the state and national figures for homes without a car, which both sit around 7% to 8%.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 9.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Little River, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 3 vehicles (20%) and 4 or more (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, though 18.7% now work from home, a figure that has risen 16 points since 2011. Public transport use is among the highest for similar areas, with 3.3% of workers using it, up from nothing in 2011.

18.7% ▲ +529.5%

Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.0%
  • 2016: 4.0%
  • 2021: 18.7%

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

3.3% ▲ —

Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.3%

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 Little River, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 23%.

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 Little River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222045/little-river/topic/transport