1.4% ▼ -64.3%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kew · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kew
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Around 67% of workers in Kew drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Very few people here rely on public transport or work from home, with only 1.4% of households owning no motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, with 79.1% of homes having either one or two vehicles. This means far fewer households are without a car compared to the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Kew splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is uncommon here; only 11.2% do so, which is far below the state figure of 31%. Only 0.9% of the workforce use public transport to get to their jobs.
11.2% ▲ +35.7%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▲ —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.9%
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.
Bus services are the only form of public transport available, though departures per person are far below the state average. There is only one stop and one route serving the area.
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.
0.57
Higher than 59% 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).
0.6
Higher than 57% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 2 minutes, which is much lower than most similar areas.
2
Lower than 86% 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).
More for Kew
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Kew [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12117/kew/topic/transport