Cape Burney · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Cape Burney

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

A vast majority of residents in Cape Burney rely on private cars for their daily travel. Only 2.5% of homes lack a motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average and has fallen since 2011. This heavy dependence on cars is reflected in how people get to work.

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📍 Cape Burney, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households here have at least one car, with 42.7% owning one and 37.8% owning two. The proportion of homes without a vehicle is much lower than in most other areas.

2.5% ▼ -61.5%

Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.5%
  • 2016: 3.4%
  • 2021: 2.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Cape Burney splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (42%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 70.4% of people commuting as a driver. Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 3.5%.

3.5% ▲ +191.5%

Lower than 84% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.2%
  • 2016: 1.4%
  • 2021: 3.5%

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

1.6% ▼ -35.2%

Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 2016: 1.4%
  • 2021: 1.6%

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 Cape Burney, Car (driver) is the majority at 88%; Worked at home is next at 4%.

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 Cape Burney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521012/cape-burney/topic/transport