7.2% ▼ -34.3%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kensington Gardens · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kensington Gardens
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Just an 8-minute drive from the city makes Kensington Gardens a highly accessible place to live. It stands out for its strong public transport links, with more people using transit to get to work than in most other similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of all homes have one motor vehicle, and 32.6% have two. About 7.2% of households do not own a car, which is much higher than most areas but about the same as the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kensington Gardens, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is among the highest for this area type at 6.9%, well above the national figure of 3.1%. Meanwhile, 13.2% of people work from home, which is well below the Australian average.
13.2% ▲ +286.6%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.9% ▼ -30.9%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 6.9%
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.
The area is very well served by buses, with 12 routes and 12 stops. It has 4.80 stops per 1,000 people, and the number of weekly departures is among the highest at this level.
12
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.80
Higher than 77% 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).
1,584.1
Higher than 89% 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).
12
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
29,915
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
106,808
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
45
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around is easy, with a very short walk of only 2 minutes to the nearest stop. This is much lower than most other areas.
2
Lower than 86% 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.
8
Lower than 97% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Kensington Gardens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40678/kensington-gardens/topic/transport