Maaroom · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Maaroom

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

Nearly 68% of working residents in Maaroom drive themselves to work. This is a highly car-dependent area where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. The reliance on private cars is reflected in the total absence of public transport use for the daily commute.

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📍 Maaroom, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in Maaroom are without a motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average. Most households have one or two cars, with about 43% owning two vehicles.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Maaroom, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (41%) and 3 vehicles (7%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home has risen to 9.1% since 2011, though this remains far below the Australian figure. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, a trend that has fallen since 2011.

9.1% ▲ +88.3%

Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.8%
  • 2016: 6.4%
  • 2021: 9.1%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.1%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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 Maaroom, Car (driver) is the majority at 88%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

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 Maaroom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322074/maaroom/topic/transport