Emu Park · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Emu Park

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.

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📍 Emu Park, Urban Centre

Vehicles

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.

  • 2011: 0.6%
  • 2016: 7.7%
  • 2021: 2.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Emu Park splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

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.

  • 2011: 13.2%
  • 2016: 3.9%
  • 2021: 5.9%

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

2.0% ▲ +104.4%

Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.

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

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 Emu Park, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 7%.

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 Emu Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315032/emu-park/topic/transport