Cranbrook · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Cranbrook

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

Cranbrook (L) sits around the middle of similar areas for its transport patterns, with a heavy reliance on private cars. Almost every home has a vehicle and public transport is not used for commuting. This creates a transport landscape where the car is the primary way people get around.

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📍 Cranbrook, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, and 46.2% have just one. Only 3.8% of households lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%, though this proportion has risen since 2011.

3.8% ▲ —

Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.8%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Cranbrook, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (28%) and 3 vehicles (14%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Private cars are the main way to get to work for 64.2% of people, while 0.0% use public transport, a figure well below the state and national levels. Working from home is also rare here at 4.2%, which is far below the 21.0% national figure.

4.2% ▼ -33.4%

Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.3%
  • 2016: 4.5%
  • 2021: 4.2%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.3%
  • 2016: 2.5%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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 Cranbrook, Car (driver) is the majority at 82%; Walked is next at 7%.

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 Cranbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522016/cranbrook/topic/transport