1.8% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tallawong · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tallawong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 44% of workers in Tallawong work from home, a figure far above the national average. This makes it one of the most flexible workplaces in the region, where a high proportion of residents avoid a daily commute entirely.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are very common here, with 46.2% of homes owning two vehicles. Only 1.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tallawong, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (37%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is the most common way people get to work at 43.5%, far above the 21% national figure. For those who do travel, 32.4% drive as the main driver, while 3.6% use public transport.
43.5% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.6% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Tallawong has 24 public transport stops and 8 routes, which is among the largest for its area. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are well above the state figure, with buses making up 81.7% of the service.
24
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.
3.65
Higher than 72% 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).
1,814.3
Higher than 91% 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).
25,130
Higher than 78% 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).
25,130
Higher than 53% 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is 35 minutes, which is lower than most areas. It takes about 7 minutes to walk to the nearest stop, placing the area around the middle for its level.
7
Lower than 61% 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.
35
Lower than 70% 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 Tallawong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13747/tallawong/topic/transport