0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Arding · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Arding
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of all households in Arding own two motor vehicles, making private cars the dominant way to get around. While there are more transport stops here than in most similar areas, the community relies heavily on personal cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with no homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2% and the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Arding, 2 vehicles is the majority at 54%; 1 vehicle is next at 24%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Instead, 42.6% drive themselves and 21.3% work from home, a rate about the same as the Australian average.
21.3% ▲ +71.4%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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.
The area has 16.48 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the New South Wales average. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure.
3
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
16.48
Higher than 91% 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).
313.2
Higher than 75% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
Reaching the nearest transport stop takes much longer than in most areas, with a typical walk of 45 minutes.
45
Higher than 77% 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.
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 Arding
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Arding [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10076/arding/topic/transport