Norway · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Norway

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Private cars are essential for everyone in Norway, where not a single home lacks a motor vehicle. This reliance on cars is clear in the area's extreme distance from the city and a total lack of public transport options.

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📍 Norway, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Norway has at least one vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2% for homes without one. Nearly 45% of households own three vehicles.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Norway, the largest group is 3 vehicles at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and 1 vehicle (25%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 37% of people doing so, which is far above the national figure of 21%. No one uses public transport to get to work.

37.0%

Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 21.4%
  • 2021: 37.0%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Norway, Worked at home is the majority at 67%; Car (driver) is next at 33%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This is far below the state average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 202 minutes, which is among the highest for similar areas.

202

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 Norway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13035/norway/topic/transport