0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tenterden · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tenterden
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has remained essentially universal in Tenterden, where no homes were recorded without a motor vehicle in 2021. This total reliance on cars defines the local transport landscape, with the vast majority of residents using a vehicle for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home here has multiple cars, with 40.2% owning two and 19.5% owning four or more. The proportion of homes without a car is 0%, which is well below the 5% state and 7.4% national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tenterden, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 3 vehicles (25%) and 1 vehicle (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 53.5% of residents, and no one uses public transport. About 15.2% work from home, a figure well above the Western Australian average of 7.5% but well below the 21% seen across Australia.
15.2% ▼ -51.2%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 15.2%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Tenterden has 8.33 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is well above the state average of 5.48. However, these two bus routes provide very few services, with weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the state figure.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.33
Higher than 86% 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).
108.3
Higher than 69% 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).
2
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Tenterden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51442/tenterden/topic/transport