1.7% ▼ -35.7%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rathmines · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Rathmines
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
In Rathmines, pt stops is well above average and stops/1k is well above average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
1.7% of households in Rathmines have no car, down 35.7% since 2011 — around the middle of the range (below both the New South Wales average of 9.2% and the national 7.4%).
The most common motor vehicles per home is 2 vehicles at 38%, ahead of 1 vehicle (29%).
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rathmines, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
18.2% of workers in Rathmines work from home, up 430.4% since 2011 — around the middle of the range (below both the New South Wales average of 31.0% and the national 21.0%). 1.2% of workers in Rathmines get to work by public transport, up 16.0% since 2011, above average (below both the New South Wales average of 2.7% and the national 3.1%).
The most common how people get to work is Car (driver) at 59%, ahead of Worked at home (18%).
18.2% ▲ +430.4%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▲ +16.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
Rathmines has 16 public transport stops — well above average. Rathmines has 7.71 public transport stops per 1,000 residents, well above average (above the New South Wales average of 5.27). Rathmines sees 294.3 weekly public transport departures per 1,000 residents, well above average (below the New South Wales average of 1,313.6).
1 public transport routes serve Rathmines, above average.
16
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.71
Higher than 86% 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).
294.3
Higher than 75% 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 nearest public transport stop in Rathmines is about 6 min away on foot — below average. Driving to the city from Rathmines takes about 85 min, above average.
6
Lower than 64% 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.
85
Higher than 60% 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 Rathmines [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13332/rathmines/topic/transport