3.4% ▼ -39.2%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Highfields · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Highfields
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost half of all homes in Highfields have two motor vehicles, making cars the dominant way to get around. The area is heavily reliant on private transport, though a significant 27.7% of the workforce now works from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households go without a car, with only 3.4% of homes having none. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Highfields, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here at 27.7%, which is well above the national figure. Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.6%.
27.7% ▲ +795.3%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -73.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.6%
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.
Highfields has 8.55 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the New South Wales average. All local services are buses, with 8 stops and two routes serving the area.
8
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.55
Higher than 86% 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).
1,096.2
Higher than 87% 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.
The typical walk to the nearest stop is short, taking only 4 minutes. However, the drive time to the city is 104 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
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.
104
Higher than 71% 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 Highfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11909/highfields/topic/transport