0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Parma · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Parma
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly every home in Parma relies on a car, with not a single household lacking a motor vehicle. The area is very remote, taking over two hours to drive to the city and lacking any local public transport options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 36.5% owning two and 23.8% owning four or more. This explains why 0.0% of households are without a vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Parma, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 4 or more (25%) and 1 vehicle (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost half of workers drive to work, while 22.9% work from home, which is a little above the national figure. No one in the area commutes using public transport.
22.9% ▲ +95.9%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 22.9%
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 non-existent here, with zero stops and routes. This is far below the New South Wales average for transport 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around is a challenge as it takes 79 minutes to walk to the nearest stop, among the highest walk times for similar areas.
79
Higher than 96% 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.
127
Higher than 85% 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 Parma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13166/parma/topic/transport