0.7% ▼ -75.9%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 0.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kendall · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kendall
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Higher numbers of transport stops than most similar areas mark Kendall as a place with decent access to services. However, the area is heavily reliant on cars, with almost no one using public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, as only 0.7% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%, and 42.8% of households own two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kendall, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 69.2% of people as the driver. No one uses public transport for their commute, and the 9.9% who work from home is far below the national figure of 21%.
9.9% ▲ +256.1%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 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 19 public transport routes and 3 stops, which is more than about 74% of similar areas. Despite this, the 196.9 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure of 1,313.6.
3
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.60
Higher than 68% 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).
196.9
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).
19
Higher than 86% 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.
A typical resident in Kendall spends 19 minutes walking to their nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for its level.
19
Higher than 58% 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 Kendall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12104/kendall/topic/transport