Kains Flat · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Kains Flat

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

Far fewer people rely on public transport in Kains Flat compared to the rest of the state. Every single home in the area owns at least one motor vehicle, making private cars the essential way to get around. This reliance on cars is seen in how people commute and the total lack of local transit options.

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📍 Kains Flat, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, with 0% of homes lacking a vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households have multiple cars, with 43.3% owning two and 28.4% owning three.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Kains Flat, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 1 vehicle (26%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, as 68.6% of people drive themselves and 12.8% travel as passengers. Very few people work from home at 3.5%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.

3.5% ▼ -75.6%

Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 14.3%
  • 2016: 10.4%
  • 2021: 3.5%

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.

How people get to work

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In Kains Flat, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Car (passenger) is next at 14%.

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 means weekly departures per 1,000 people are 0.0, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 1,313.6.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Kains Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12057/kains-flat/topic/transport