19.8% —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Summer Hill · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Summer Hill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half the workforce in Summer Hill works from home, a figure far above the national average. This high rate of remote work and easy access to the city makes the area less reliant on cars. Nearly one in five homes here has no motor vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 19.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households with a car have just one, while only 1.5% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Summer Hill, 1 vehicle is the majority at 56%; No vehicle is next at 20%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 55.8% of people doing so, far above the Australian figure of 21.0%. Another 6% use public transport for their commute, which is well above the state average.
55.8% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 55.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.0% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 6.0%
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.
Summer Hill is well connected, with 18 public transport stops and a short 36-minute trip to the city. It provides access to over 560,000 people within 45 minutes by transit, though the number of stops per person is far below the state average.
18
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.
2.47
Higher than 67% 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).
961.6
Higher than 86% 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).
17
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
119,347
Higher than 91% 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).
564,109
Higher than 93% 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).
36
Lower than 87% 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 around is efficient, with a very short 3-minute walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is also much lower than most areas at just 12 minutes.
3
Lower than 79% 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.
12
Lower than 92% 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 Summer Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13702/summer-hill/topic/transport