3.6% ▼ -19.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Garah · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Garah
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people rely on public transport in Garah than in most similar areas. It is a place where cars are essential and working from home is common, with nearly 28% of the workforce doing so.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have at least one car, with 11.9% owning four or more. Only 3.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Garah splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (35%) and 2 vehicles (31%), with 3 vehicles at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
More people work from home here than in most other similar areas, accounting for 27.9% of the workforce. This is well above the national figure of 21%, while no one here commutes by public transport.
27.9% ▲ +13.7%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 27.9%
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 that is 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 Garah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11590/garah/topic/transport