0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Putty · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Putty
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Putty has at least one motor vehicle, making a car essential for daily life in this rural area. With no public transport options and a long drive to the city, residents rely almost entirely on their own transport to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are universal here, with 50% of homes owning two vehicles and 8.3% owning four or more. This is well below the New South Wales and national figures for homes without a vehicle, which are 9.2% and 7.4% respectively.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Putty, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Half of the workforce drive to work and 18.2% work from home, which is a little below the Australian figure of 21%. No one in Putty uses public transport to commute, a figure well below the national average of 3.1%.
18.2% ▲ +58.4%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 18.2%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This lack of access is far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.
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 into the city is a major trip, with drive times of 215 minutes, among the highest for similar areas.
215
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).
More for Putty
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Putty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13292/putty/topic/transport