3.0% ▼ -39.8%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Suffolk Park · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Suffolk Park
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A shift towards flexible work is clear in Suffolk Park, where 26.5% of people now work from home. Most residents rely on private cars to get around, though the area has more public transport stops than the vast majority of similar places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes are without a car, with only 3% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%, and most households own two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Suffolk Park, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Half of the workforce drives to work, while 26.5% work from home, which is well above the Australian figure. Very few people use public transport for their commute, at just 0.3%.
26.5% ▲ +150.3%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -79.7%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
The area has 17 public transport stops and 8 routes, which is more than most similar places. However, the 289 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
17
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.
4.03
Higher than 74% 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).
289.0
Higher than 74% 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).
8
Higher than 86% 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 stop is quick, with a typical walk of only 2 minutes, which is much lower than in most other areas.
2
Lower than 86% 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 Suffolk Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13699/suffolk-park/topic/transport