Garra · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Garra

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

Very few residents in Garra rely on public transport, making it an area where car ownership is essentially universal. Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, which is far more common than in the rest of New South Wales. Most people use their own cars or work from home to get through the day.

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📍 Garra, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No home in Garra is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales rate of 9.2%. About 63% of households own either one or two vehicles, while more than 31% have three or more.

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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

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Garra splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (33%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nearly 60% of workers drive to get to their jobs, and 20.3% work from home. This home-working rate is about the same as the national figure of 21.0%, while no one in the area uses public transport for their commute.

20.3% ▲ +18.6%

Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 17.1%
  • 2016: 19.1%
  • 2021: 20.3%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

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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

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In Garra, Car (driver) is the majority at 70%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

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 is far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Garra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11596/garra/topic/transport