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.
Barrengarry · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barrengarry
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is the primary way people get around Barrengarry, where every single home now has at least one motor vehicle. While the area is far from the city, a high number of residents avoid the commute entirely by working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No homes in Barrengarry are without a car, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 9.2%. Most households are well-equipped, with 31.5% owning two vehicles and 12.3% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Barrengarry splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 1 vehicle (30%), with 3 vehicles at 25%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, accounting for 30.9% of journeys, which is well above the national figure of 21.0%. In contrast, no one uses public transport to get to work.
30.9% ▲ +153.1%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 30.9%
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: 2.3%
- 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.
There are 11 public transport stops and two bus routes, giving the area some of the highest stop counts per person in the region. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state average.
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.
51.40
Higher 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).
406.5
Higher than 77% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
It takes a long time to reach the city, with a typical drive of 101 minutes. Despite this, the walk to the nearest transport stop is very short, taking only 3 minutes.
3
Lower than 79% 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.
101
Higher than 70% 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 Barrengarry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10214/barrengarry/topic/transport