1.8% ▲ —
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hinton · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Hinton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Hinton relies on a car to get around, as the area has no public transport options. This car-dependency is stark, with 47.4% of homes owning two vehicles and virtually no one using buses or trains for work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes lack a car, with just 1.8% of households without one, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Nearly half of all homes have two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hinton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 1 vehicle (18%) and 4 or more (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, though 23% of people work from home, a figure a little above the national average. Not a single person here commutes by public transport.
23.0% ▲ +780.4%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 23.0%
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.
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 is far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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.
Getting into the city takes a long time, with a drive time of 110 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
110
Higher than 75% 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 Hinton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11923/hinton/topic/transport