0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yarra · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Yarra
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people live without a car in Yarra compared to the state and national figures. This is a place where almost every home owns at least one vehicle, making private transport essential for daily life. The area is very distant from the city and lacks public transport options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No homes in Yarra are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households have multiple cars, with 54.5% owning two and 31.8% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Yarra, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 4 or more (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nearly everyone who works here drives, with 72.4% of workers being the driver. Only 11.5% work from home, which is far below the state figure of 31.0%, and no one uses public transport to get to work.
11.5% —
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 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 the number of weekly departures is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6 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 to the city is a long trip, with a typical drive time of 121 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas.
121
Higher than 81% 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 Yarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14486/yarra/topic/transport