0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dalton · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Dalton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Dalton has a motor vehicle, making private cars essential for daily life here. This total reliance on cars is reflected in the local commute, where almost no one uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 39.5% having two and 28.9% having three. Having no vehicle is non-existent here, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Dalton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 1 vehicle (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 59.4% of residents. While 18.8% work from home, this is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%, and no one uses public transport to commute.
18.8% ▲ +73.4%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 18.8%
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 leaves the town with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the state average.
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 Dalton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11195/dalton/topic/transport