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.
Cardiff · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Cardiff
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A tiny fraction of homes in Cardiff lack a car, as every single household owns at least one vehicle. This reliance on private transport is common for the area, though a surprising number of residents still use public transport to get to work compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in Cardiff is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have one or two cars, while about 15.6% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Cardiff splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (32%) and 2 vehicles (32%), with 4 or more at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 9.5% of workers use public transport, a figure well above the Australian average of 3.1%. Conversely, only 7.1% work from home, which is far below the national rate of 21%.
7.1% ▲ +117.9%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
9.5% ▲ —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 9.5%
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.
Despite some people using it for work, there are no public transport stops or routes within the area. This leaves the local access to transit far below the Western Australian 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Daily travel is dominated by the car, which is reflected in the long drive time of 136 minutes to reach the city. This is much higher than most other areas.
136
Higher than 87% 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 Cardiff [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50259/cardiff/topic/transport