7.7% ▼ -20.6%
Higher than 72% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
East Hills · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in East Hills
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive shift in working habits has transformed East Hills since 2011, with the proportion of people working from home jumping from 2.5% to 36.1%. This makes the area much more reliant on home-based work than the rest of the country. While public transport access remains high, the way people get to their jobs has changed dramatically.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in East Hills own at least one car, with 37.4% having two vehicles. Those without a motor vehicle make up 7.7% of households, which is a little below the New South Wales figure and down 2 percentage points from 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →East Hills splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is now the most common way to get to work at 36.1%, a figure far above the Australian average. This trend is mirrored by a sharp drop in public transport use for commuting, which fell 10 percentage points since 2011 to reach 2.9%.
36.1% ▲ +1355.8%
Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.9% ▼ -77.9%
Higher than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 2.9%
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.
East Hills has a high level of public transport access, with 5.83 stops per 1,000 people, which is a little above the state figure. This is supported by 484 stops and 1,539.9 weekly departures per 1,000 people, mostly served by buses.
484
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.83
Higher than 75% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,539.9
Higher than 71% of state electorate 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).
20
Lower than 67% of state electorate 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in East Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10027/east-hills/topic/transport