0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Merrygoen · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Merrygoen
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single household in Merrygoen has at least one motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on cars for daily life. While most residents drive to work, a striking 30.6% of the workforce operates from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 20% of homes owning four or more vehicles. This is much higher than the national figure, where 7.4% of households have no car at all.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Merrygoen, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 4 or more (29%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 55.6% of residents, while 30.6% work from home, which is well above the Australian average of 21%. No one in the area uses public transport to commute.
30.6% ▼ -4.2%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 30.6%
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.
Public transport is completely unavailable in Merrygoen, with zero routes, stops, or departures. This leaves the area far below the New South Wales average for transit access.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% 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).
0.0
Lower than 99% 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Merrygoen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12598/merrygoen/topic/transport