4.6% ▼ -34.1%
Lower than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Maitland · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Maitland
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 4.6% of homes in Maitland have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales average. This heavy reliance on cars is reflected in the way people get to work and the long travel times to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 41.1% have two. The proportion of households without a vehicle has fallen by 2.4 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Maitland, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 59% of people being the driver. While 17% now work from home—a rise of 14 percentage points since 2011—this is still well below the national figure.
17.0% ▲ +464.9%
Higher than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -66.1%
Lower than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.6%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Maitland has 604 public transport stops and 45 routes, which is more than about 87% of similar areas. Despite having more stops per person than the state average, weekly departures per person are well below the New South Wales figure.
604
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.69
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
833.6
Higher than 77% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
45
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Reaching the city takes a long time, with a typical drive of 116 minutes. Access to transit can be difficult, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 36 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
36
Higher than 67% of council (lga) areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
116
Higher than 82% of council (lga) areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Maitland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA15050/maitland/topic/transport