3.9% ▲ +15.2%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Morpeth · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Morpeth
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fifteen public transport stops serve the small area of Morpeth, giving it far more stops per person than most similar places. While these facilities are easy to reach on foot, the community relies heavily on cars and home-based work to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 47.2% of homes having one vehicle and 33.9% having two. Only 3.9% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the New South Wales and national rates.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Morpeth, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Half of the workforce drives to work, while 22.5% work from home, which is a little above the national figure. No one in the area commutes using public transport.
22.5% ▲ +380.7%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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.
Morpeth has 8.9 public transport stops per 1,000 people, far above the state average. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure, with all services being buses.
15
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.90
Higher than 87% 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).
453.7
Higher than 77% 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 stop is very short, taking only 2 minutes, which is much lower than most areas. In contrast, the drive time to the city is 106 minutes, which is higher than most 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.
106
Higher than 73% 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).
More for Morpeth
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Morpeth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12738/morpeth/topic/transport