0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tarago · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tarago
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly every household in Tarago relies on a car to get around. With 0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle and almost no one using public transport to get to work, driving is the only practical way to travel in this area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 43.9% of homes owning two vehicles and 17.3% owning four or more. This means Tarago has far fewer carless homes than the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tarago, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (20%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, and 21.3% work from home, which is about the same as the national figure. No one in the area uses public transport for their daily commute.
21.3% ▲ +46.9%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 21.3%
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.
While Tarago has six public transport routes and one stop, these are far fewer than the state average. Every single public transport trip recorded here is by train.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.96
Higher than 65% 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).
82.4
Higher than 66% 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).
6
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Tarago [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13773/tarago/topic/transport