0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lidsdale · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lidsdale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A heavy reliance on cars defines daily life in Lidsdale, where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle. This dependence is clear in the way people travel, with almost no one using public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, and no homes in the area are without a vehicle. This is much lower than the New South Wales figure of 9.2%, with about 64% of households owning three or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lidsdale, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 4 or more (25%) and 3 vehicles (23%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 73.3% of people being the driver. Very few people work from home at 8.5%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
8.5% ▲ +61.0%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 8.5%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
While there are 7 public transport stops, providing more per person than the state average, there are far fewer weekly departures than in New South Wales. All available services are buses.
7
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
14.86
Higher than 90% 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).
95.5
Higher than 68% 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.
Access to services is limited, with a very long 83-minute walk to the nearest stop. It also takes among the longest times at this level to drive to the city, taking 238 minutes.
83
Higher than 98% 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.
238
Higher than 99% 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 Lidsdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12327/lidsdale/topic/transport