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.
Cape Burney · Urban Centre
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.
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.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cape Burney splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (42%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
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.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.6% ▼ -35.2%
Higher than 84% 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 Cape Burney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521012/cape-burney/topic/transport