2.4% ▲ +312.7%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Emu Park · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few homes in Emu Park go without a car compared to other similar areas. Most households rely heavily on private vehicles for travel, with 41% of homes owning two cars and only 2.4% having none at all.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Having no motor vehicle is much less common here than across Australia, where the figure is 7.4%. However, this has risen slightly since 2011, with the proportion of car-less homes climbing from 0.6% to 2.4%.
2.4% ▲ +312.7%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Emu Park splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common than the national figure of 21%, and this trend has fallen since 2011. Most people drive themselves to work, though public transport use is much higher here than in most similar areas.
5.9% ▼ -55.8%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▲ +104.4%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Emu Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315032/emu-park/topic/transport