11.6% ▲ +307.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Long Flat · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Long Flat
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes in Long Flat lack a motor vehicle than in most similar areas. While 11.6% of households have no car, the area's transport options are mixed, with a high number of public transport stops but very few people actually using them to commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 11.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the Australian figure of 7.4%. Most households do own a car, with 37.2% having one vehicle and 34.9% having two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Long Flat splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (35%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 3 vehicles at 22%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area commutes using public transport, and the 12.5% who work from home is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%. Most workers drive, while 16.1% walk to their jobs.
12.5% ▼ -20.2%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 12.5%
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.
Long Flat has 17.86 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state figure of 5.27. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state average, and all services are buses.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
17.86
Higher than 91% 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).
35.7
Higher than 61% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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 typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 9 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
9
Lower than 56% 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 Long Flat
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Long Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12386/long-flat/topic/transport