7.3% ▼ -23.4%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Young · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Young
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A tiny 0.2% of workers use public transport in Young, making the town heavily dependent on cars. While most homes have one or two vehicles, the area has a much lower rate of working from home than the state or national figures.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. Over a third of households have either one or two vehicles, and 13.1% own three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Young splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 70.1% as the driver. Only 7.1% work from home, a figure that is far below the New South Wales average of 31.0%.
7.1% ▲ +70.1%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -50.8%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.1%
- 2021: 0.2%
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.
Public transport is limited to four bus routes, with only one stop across the area. This results in just 1.3 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the state figure.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.09
Higher than 58% 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).
1.3
Higher than 57% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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.
Walking to the nearest transport stop takes around 89 minutes, which is among the highest times for areas of this type.
89
Higher than 99% 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 Young [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14536/young/topic/transport