1.2% ▼ -60.5%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Red Head · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Red Head
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes in Red Head go without a car compared to the rest of the country, with only 1.2% of households lacking a motor vehicle. This heavy reliance on private cars is clear across the board, as almost no one uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 41.1% of households own two vehicles. This means Red Head is well below the state and national figures for homes with no motor vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Red Head splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (40%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 62.1% of people taking the wheel. Working from home accounts for 14.6% of commutes, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%.
14.6% ▲ +142.7%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 14.6%
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 leaves Red Head far below the state average for both the number of stops and weekly departures 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 to the nearest transport stop takes 27 minutes on foot, which is higher than most similar areas.
27
Higher 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.
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 Red Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13342/red-head/topic/transport