17.8% ▲ +14.7%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rhodes · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Rhodes
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of the workforce in Rhodes now work from home, marking a significant shift in how people manage their daily travel. This area has an unusually high number of households without a car, with 17.8% of homes owning none.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 17.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households keep a single vehicle, while 16.1% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rhodes, 1 vehicle is the majority at 63%; No vehicle is next at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 51.5% of residents doing so—far above the national figure of 21%. Public transport use for commuting is also well above the national average at 8.4%.
51.5% ▲ +2046.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 51.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
8.4% ▼ -75.8%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 41.6%
- 2021: 8.4%
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.
Rhodes has strong connectivity, with 538,857 people reachable within 45 minutes by transit. While the number of stops per 1,000 people is far below the state average, weekly departures are a little above the New South Wales figure.
26
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.
2.27
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).
1,505.5
Higher than 89% 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).
7
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
99,896
Higher than 89% 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).
538,857
Higher than 92% 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).
44
Lower than 75% 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.
Getting into the city is fast, with a typical drive time of 16 minutes. Residents also enjoy very quick access to transit, with the walk to the nearest stop taking just 1 minute.
1
Lower than 99% 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.
16
Lower than 87% 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 Rhodes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13372/rhodes/topic/transport