0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tarraganda · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tarraganda
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Tarraganda owns a car, making it much more vehicle-dependent than the state and national averages. This reliance on private transport is clear across the area, where there is a complete absence of public transport options and very few people work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in Tarraganda is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales rate of 9.2%. Most households have multiple cars, with 42.6% owning two vehicles and 19.1% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tarraganda, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The vast majority of workers rely on cars, with 63.7% driving to work. This is reflected in the low number of people working from home (9.5%), a figure that is far below both the state and national averages.
9.5% ▲ +40.3%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 9.5%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. This puts Tarraganda far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0.0
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 around is challenging without a car, as the walk to the nearest transport stop takes 40 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.
40
Higher than 74% 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 Tarraganda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13783/tarraganda/topic/transport