2.2% ▼ -31.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cargo · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Cargo
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Most areas similar to Cargo have fewer cars per home, making this a highly vehicle-dependent community. Only 2.2% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. This reliance on private cars is clear as there are no public transport stops or routes available in the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high here, with 44.5% of homes owning two vehicles and another 37.4% owning three or more. This explains why very few households lack a car compared to the New South Wales average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Cargo, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 1 vehicle (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 66.8% of people as the driver and 3.6% as passengers. Far fewer people work from home here (13.1%) than across Australia, where the typical figure is 21%.
13.1% ▲ +7.2%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 13.1%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 1,313.6.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cargo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10812/cargo/topic/transport