Talarm · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Talarm

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

About 60% of workers in Talarm drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. The area is almost entirely dependent on vehicles for travel, with virtually no residents using public transport to get to their jobs.

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📍 Talarm, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home in Talarm has at least one vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales rate of 9.2% for homes without a car. Most households have two vehicles, while about 18% own four or more.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Talarm, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 4 or more (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nobody in the area commutes by public transport. While 21.2% of workers are employed from home, which is about the same as the national figure, the vast majority rely on driving.

21.2%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 24.4%
  • 2021: 21.2%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Talarm, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 26%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero routes, stops, and departures. This is far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Walking to the nearest transport stop takes about 70 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.

70

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 Talarm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13743/talarm/topic/transport