Jurien Bay · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Jurien Bay

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.

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📍 Jurien Bay, Urban Centre

Vehicles

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.

  • 2011: 8.1%
  • 2016: 4.4%
  • 2021: 2.2%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Jurien Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.

Getting to work

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.

  • 2011: 7.1%
  • 2016: 4.0%
  • 2021: 7.8%

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

1.9% ▲ +14.1%

Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.6%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 1.9%

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 Jurien Bay, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 10%.

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 Jurien Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515016/jurien-bay/topic/transport