Hat Head · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Hat Head

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

Daily life in Hat Head relies almost entirely on private cars for getting around. No one uses public transport to get to work, and the area has no public transport stops or routes, making a personal vehicle essential for most residents.

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📍 Hat Head, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, with 36.5% owning two and 11.9% owning three. Only 3.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much lower than the national figure of 7.4%.

3.1% ▼ -62.0%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.3%
  • 2016: 2.3%
  • 2021: 3.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Hat Head, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (12%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Cars are the dominant way to travel, with 71.2% of workers driving and another 4.5% travelling as passengers. Only 8.3% work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%.

8.3% ▲ +86.7%

Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.5%
  • 2016: 6.3%
  • 2021: 8.3%

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: 5.4%
  • 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 Hat Head, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Worked at home is next at 9%.

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 puts Hat Head far below the New South Wales average for both stops and weekly departures 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).

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Hat Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11876/hat-head/topic/transport