Hampton · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Hampton

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

Nearly 40% of working residents in Hampton drive themselves to work, marking the car as the primary way to get around. This is a remote area where no homes lack a motor vehicle, and a high proportion of the workforce operates from home.

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📍 Hampton, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Hampton has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures for households without a car. About 24% of homes have four or more vehicles.

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Hampton splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (30%) and 2 vehicles (30%), with 4 or more at 24%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 32.1% of people doing so—a figure far above the Australian average. Meanwhile, no one uses public transport to get to work.

32.1% —

Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 16.3%
  • 2021: 32.1%

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

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Hampton, Car (driver) is the majority at 55%; Worked at home is next at 45%.

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 weekly departures and stops per person are far below the New South Wales average.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting into the city is a long trip, with a typical drive time of 164 minutes, which is among the highest for similar areas.

164

Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.

Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.

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 Hampton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11853/hampton/topic/transport