56.7% ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.3%
- 2016: 56.8%
- 2021: 56.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Potts Point · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Potts Point
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of all homes in Potts Point have no motor vehicle, reflecting a lifestyle where cars are rarely needed. This is a highly connected area where more than half of workers stay home for their jobs and the typical trip to the city takes just 6 minutes by car.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
A huge 56.7% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure of 7.4%. Only 5.9% of households own two cars, and almost no homes have three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Potts Point, No vehicle is the majority at 57%; 1 vehicle is next at 36%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 53.5%, far above the 21% national average. Those who do travel are more likely to use public transport (7.2%) than people in most other areas.
53.5% ▲ +1160.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 53.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
7.2% ▼ -72.1%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 7.2%
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.
Potts Point is very well connected, with 148,479 people reachable within 45 minutes by transit. While the number of stops per person is far below the state figure, the area has 15 stops and 5 routes, which is more than most similar areas.
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.
2.09
Higher than 66% 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).
953.1
Higher than 86% 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).
5
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
28,802
Higher than 81% 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).
148,479
Higher than 86% 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).
33
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is just 6 minutes, among the lowest for areas at this level. It takes about 11 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop, which is around the middle for similar places.
11
Lower than 53% 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.
6
Lower 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)).
- 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 Potts Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13268/potts-point/topic/transport