4.0% ▲ +7.7%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Upper Main Arm · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Upper Main Arm
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Upper Main Arm relies on a car to get around. With no public transport available, the vast majority of residents use private vehicles for their daily trips and work commutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes lack a car, with only 4% having none, which is well below the Australian figure of 7.4%. Most households have at least one vehicle, and 11.1% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Upper Main Arm, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 54.6% of people as the driver. This reliance on cars is reflected in the 0% who use public transport and the 13% who work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
13.0% ▲ +40.7%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 13.0%
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 in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the New South Wales average.
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).
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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Upper Main Arm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14053/upper-main-arm/topic/transport