Ashby Heights · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Ashby Heights

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

Car reliance has remained the dominant way to get around Ashby Heights since 2011. Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle, reflecting a complete dependence on private transport. This is far more common than in the rest of Australia, where many more households get by without a car.

Open map →
📍 Ashby Heights, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household here owns a vehicle, which is well below the national figure where 7.4% of homes have none. Over half of all homes have two cars, while about 22% have three.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

View on map →

In Ashby Heights, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 70.9% of residents. Very few people work from home at 10.0%, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%.

10.0% ▲ +3.6%

Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 9.6%
  • 2016: 7.0%
  • 2021: 10.0%

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.

How people get to work

View on map →

In Ashby Heights, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Worked at home is next at 11%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is nonexistent in the area, with no routes or stops available. This leaves the local service level far below the state average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.

0.00

Lower than 99% 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).

0.0

Lower than 99% 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).

Sources

More for Ashby Heights

Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ashby Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10096/ashby-heights/topic/transport