4.9% ▼ -30.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Aberdare · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Aberdare
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 114-minute drive to the city makes Aberdare a remote location where most people rely on their own cars. While the area has a high number of transport stops, almost no one uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and about 33% of households own two vehicles. Only 4.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Aberdare, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 62.9% of people driving themselves. Very few people work from home at 9.4%, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%, and no one commutes using public transport.
9.4% ▲ +379.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Aberdare has 28 public transport stops, and its 11.01 stops per 1,000 people is far above the state average. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the New South Wales figure, and all available services are buses.
28
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
11.01
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
240.8
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality 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).
3
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The typical resident faces a long trip to the city, with a drive time of 114 minutes. Walking to the nearest transport stop takes about 13 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
13
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality 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.
114
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality 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).
More for Aberdare
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Aberdare [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10006/aberdare/topic/transport