Yarrowyck · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Yarrowyck

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Far fewer homes are without a car in Yarrowyck than the national figure, with no households lacking a vehicle. This highlights a heavy reliance on private transport in an area where almost every home has at least two cars.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households are well-equipped for travel, with 29.2% owning two vehicles and 25% having four or more. This explains why the 0.0% of homes without a car is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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Yarrowyck splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (29%) and 3 vehicles (27%), with 4 or more at 24%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is a little above the national figure at 22.1%, while no one uses public transport to get to work. Most people rely on their own car, with 54.4% driving themselves to work.

22.1% ▼ -46.2%

Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 41.0%
  • 2016: 20.0%
  • 2021: 22.1%

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.

How people get to work

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In Yarrowyck, Car (driver) is the majority at 66%; Worked at home is next at 27%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are 5.71 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is a little above the New South Wales figure. However, actual service is very low, with weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the state's 1,313.6.

5.71

Higher than 80% 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).

11.4

Higher than 58% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Walking to the nearest transport stop takes about 59 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

59

Higher than 85% 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 Yarrowyck [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14510/yarrowyck/topic/transport