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.
Howards Grass · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Howards Grass
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Howards Grass has at least one motor vehicle, making private cars essential for daily life. While the area has a fair amount of public transport stops, very few people actually use them to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 38.7% of homes owning two vehicles and 35.5% owning three. No one in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Howards Grass splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (31%), with 1 vehicle at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to travel, with 59.6% of workers being the driver. About 23.4% of people work from home, which is a little above the national figure, while no one uses public transport to commute.
23.4% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 23.4%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
The area has 12.82 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the New South Wales figure. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
12.82
Higher than 89% 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).
192.3
Higher than 73% 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.
Getting to the nearest transport stop is easier than in most similar areas, with a typical walk taking about 5 minutes.
5
Lower than 68% 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.
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 Howards Grass [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11953/howards-grass/topic/transport