8.5% ▼ -36.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Argenton · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Argenton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on cars is very high in Argenton, where 61.2% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. While the area has an abundance of public transport stops, almost no one uses them to commute to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, though 8.5% of households have no motor vehicle. This is much higher than most similar areas and sits slightly above the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Argenton splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of the state, at just 10.9%. Notably, 0.0% of the workforce commutes via public transport, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.1%.
10.9% ▲ +868.2%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 10.9%
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: 4.1%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 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 is very well served by buses, with 11 stops and 3 routes. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are among the highest at this level and far above the New South Wales figure.
11
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.14
Higher than 86% 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).
2,290.7
Higher than 93% 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.
Getting to the city takes a long time, with a typical drive of 94 minutes. However, public transport is very close by, with a typical walk to the nearest stop taking only 2 minutes.
2
Lower than 86% 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.
94
Higher than 65% 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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Argenton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10079/argenton/topic/transport