0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Harpers Hill · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Harpers Hill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Harpers Hill has at least one motor vehicle. This reliance on cars is clear across the area, where the typical household owns two or three vehicles and almost no one uses public transport to commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households are well equipped, with 45.8% owning two vehicles and 37.5% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Harpers Hill, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost no one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. Instead, 51.6% of workers drive, while 29% work from home, a rate well above the Australian average.
29.0% —
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
The area has 3 public transport stops and 2 routes, all for buses. With 3,062.5 weekly departures per 1,000 people, this is far above the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.
3
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
46.88
Higher 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).
3,062.5
Higher than 97% 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.
It takes a typical resident about 107 minutes to drive to the city, which is higher than most areas. However, the walk to the nearest transport stop is quite short, taking only 4 minutes.
4
Lower than 71% 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.
107
Higher than 73% 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 Harpers Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11864/harpers-hill/topic/transport