0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tharwa · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tharwa
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single household in Tharwa owns a car, making it far more vehicle-dependent than most other areas. With no public transport stops in the locality, residents rely almost entirely on private cars or working from home to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in Tharwa has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the 5.6% of ACT households that have none. Nearly half of all homes have three or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tharwa, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 30%, followed by 2 vehicles (24%) and 3 vehicles (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes by public transport, and 65.2% of workers drive. While 17.4% work from home—well above the ACT figure—this is still well below the national rate of 21%.
17.4% ▲ +68.9%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means the number of stops and departures per 1,000 people is far below the ACT 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).
0
Lower than 99% 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).
0
Lower than 99% 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 30 minutes to drive into the city, which is lower than most areas. However, the walk to the nearest transport stop takes 68 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
68
Higher than 90% 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.
30
Lower than 74% 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).
More for Tharwa
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Tharwa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80123/tharwa/topic/transport