Greenhill · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Greenhill

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

More people rely on their own cars in Greenhill than in most similar areas. Almost every home here owns a vehicle, and practically no one uses public transport to get to work. With only 5.3% of people working from home, the vast majority of the local workforce must travel for their jobs.

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📍 Greenhill, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Very few households are without a car here, with only 2.7% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most homes are well equipped, as 39% have two vehicles and 21.5% have three or more.

2.7% ▼ -75.7%

Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 11.1%
  • 2016: 4.6%
  • 2021: 2.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Greenhill, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (35%) and 3 vehicles (12%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 75.9% of people as the driver. No one in the area commutes using public transport, and the 5.3% who work from home is far below the national figure of 21%.

5.3% ▲ +19.7%

Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.4%
  • 2016: 2.6%
  • 2021: 5.3%

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.

How people get to work

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In Greenhill, Car (driver) is the majority at 87%; Worked at home is next at 6%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is limited to buses, but the area has more routes and stops than about 72% to 85% of similar places. Despite this, the 79.3 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.

2.64

Higher than 68% 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).

79.3

Higher than 66% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical resident faces a 14-minute walk to reach their nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for areas of this level.

14

Higher than 51% 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 Greenhill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11769/greenhill/topic/transport