4.8% ▼ -35.7%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kuranda · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Kuranda
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has surged in Kuranda, with the number of residents doing so rising 15 percentage points since 2011. Most people here now rely on their own cars to get around. This shift toward home-based work is the most striking change in how the local population travels.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have at least one car, with 39.7% owning two vehicles. The proportion of homes without a motor vehicle has fallen to 4.8%, which is about the same as the Queensland figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Kuranda splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive themselves to work, while 18.3% work from home—a figure well above the Queensland average. Very few people use public transport, with only 0.3% doing so.
18.3% ▲ +400.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▲ —
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
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 Kuranda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315049/kuranda/topic/transport