2.8% ▼ -11.5%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Maroota · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Maroota
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero people in Maroota use public transport to get to work, making the car the primary way to move around. This rural area relies heavily on private vehicles, with more than 80% of homes owning two or more cars.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 30.2% of homes having four or more vehicles. Only 2.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Maroota, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 4 or more (30%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost half of the workforce drives to work and 25% work from home, which is well above the national figure. This helps explain why no one in the area commutes using public transport.
25.0% ▲ +83.7%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 25.0%
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 Maroota has 18 public transport stops—far more per person than the state average—these services are infrequent. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales figure.
18
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
29.22
Higher than 97% 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).
300.3
Higher than 75% 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 52 minutes to drive to the city from here. For those using transit, the walk to the nearest stop is around 10 minutes, which is about the middle for similar areas.
10
Lower than 54% 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.
52
Lower than 61% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Maroota [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12510/maroota/topic/transport