10.5% ▼ -11.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tarrawanna · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tarrawanna
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than a quarter of workers in Tarrawanna work from home, reflecting a shift away from daily commuting. While cars remain the main way to get around, about 10.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The usual home here has one or two cars, but 10.5% of households have no vehicle at all. This is much higher than most similar areas and slightly above the New South Wales figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tarrawanna splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the most common way to get to work, but 28% of people work from home, which is well above the Australian average. Only 1% of residents use public transport for their commute, a figure slightly below the state and national levels.
28.0% ▲ +578.8%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 28.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -63.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 1.0%
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.
Local transport is handled entirely by buses, with 9 stops and 3 routes serving the area. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are much higher than in most similar areas, though still far below the New South Wales figure.
9
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.12
Higher than 74% 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).
674.9
Higher than 82% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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.
A typical walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 18 minutes. The drive time to the city is 62 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this type.
18
Higher than 57% 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.
62
Lower than 55% 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)).
- 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 Tarrawanna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13784/tarrawanna/topic/transport