0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rous · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Rous
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of all workers in Rous drive to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. This is a highly vehicle-dependent area where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal here, with 0% of homes lacking a vehicle, which is well below the national figure. Most households have multiple cars, and 21.3% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rous, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 34%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 4 or more (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common for 25.9% of the workforce, a figure well above the national average. Other options are limited, as 0% of residents use public transport to get to work.
25.9% ▲ +29.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 25.9%
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.
Public transport is virtually non-existent in the area, with zero stops and zero routes. This leaves Rous far below the New South Wales average for transit access.
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 a transit point is difficult, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 71 minutes, which is much higher than most other areas.
71
Higher than 91% 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 Rous [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13442/rous/topic/transport