2.2% ▼ -72.4%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Jurien Bay · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has grown significantly in Jurien Bay since 2011, with the share of homes without a vehicle dropping by 5.9 percentage points. Most households now own at least one car, making private transport the dominant way to get around the area.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households lack a car, with only 2.2% having no vehicle, a figure well below the national average of 7.4%. Most homes have two vehicles (39.1%) or one vehicle (37.2%).
2.2% ▼ -72.4%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Jurien Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 57.6% of people being the driver. Working from home is less common here than across Australia, at 7.8%, while only 1.9% of people use public transport to commute.
7.8% ▲ +9.4%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.9% ▲ +14.1%
Higher than 86% 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 Jurien Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515016/jurien-bay/topic/transport