0.4% ▼ -56.4%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Googong · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Googong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Googong has a car, making it highly dependent on private vehicles to get around. Very few people use public transport to get to work, and only 0.4% of households live without a motor vehicle. This is much lower than the state and national figures.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 58.9% of homes owning two vehicles and 15.3% owning three. Only 0.4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Googong, 2 vehicles is the majority at 59%; 1 vehicle is next at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 70.2% being the driver. Only 0.5% use public transport, and the 10.7% who work from home is far below the national figure of 21%.
10.7% ▲ +189.3%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▲ —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
Public transport is limited to buses, with only two routes and seven stops serving the area. While this is higher than most similar areas, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
7
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.94
Higher than 61% 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).
134.3
Higher than 72% 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.
Walking to the nearest transport stop takes a typical 50 minutes, which is much higher than in most areas.
50
Higher 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.
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 Googong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11710/googong/topic/transport