6.1% ▼ -28.0%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hughes · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Hughes
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A short 8-minute drive to the city makes Hughes a very accessible place to live. While most people rely on cars, the area has a higher number of public transport stops than most similar places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, though 6.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Hughes splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive themselves to work, and 13.0% work from home, which is a little above the ACT figure but well below the national average.
13.0% ▲ +227.3%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.4% ▼ -67.3%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 has 9 public transport stops and 2 routes, which is more than most similar areas, although the number of weekly departures is far below the ACT average.
9
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.80
Higher than 69% 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).
415.9
Higher than 77% 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).
10,040
Higher than 59% 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).
27,197
Higher than 54% 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).
48
Lower than 68% 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 for residents, with a very short 1-minute walk to the nearest stop and some of the lowest drive times to the city.
1
Lower 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.
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 Hughes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80076/hughes/topic/transport