11.3% ▲ +28.1%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kununurra · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Most people in Kununurra rely on cars for their daily travel, though a surprising number of households get by without one. This reliance on driving is clear, as very few residents work from home or use public transport to get to their jobs.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
More than one in ten homes here have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen since 2011. For those who do own cars, the most common situation is having one vehicle (38.3%) or two (33.4%).
11.3% ▲ +28.1%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kununurra splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with No vehicle at 11%.
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work (0.6%), and the share of residents working from home (2.8%) is far below the national figure. Instead, 62% of workers drive themselves to their jobs, while 10.3% walk.
2.8% ▲ +56.6%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -27.6%
Higher than 70% 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 Kununurra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515020/kununurra/topic/transport