Bexley - South · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)

Transport & Vehicles in Bexley - South

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Far more people in Bexley - South live without a car compared to the national average, with 14.3% of homes having no motor vehicle. This gap is mirrored in the commute, where the area has a much higher rate of public transport use than both the state and the country.

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📍 Bexley - South, Statistical Area 2 (SA2)

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 14.3% of households here do not own a car, which is well above the 9.2% seen across New South Wales. Most homes that do have vehicles own just one (46.7%) or two (27.3%).

Motor vehicles per home

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In Bexley - South, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (27%) and No vehicle (14%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Public transport is used by 9.5% of workers, a figure well above the national average of 3.1%. Working from home is also very common here at 30.7%, which is much higher than most areas and well above the Australian figure.

9.5%

Higher than 97% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.

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.

How people get to work

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Bexley - South splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (42%) and Worked at home (39%), with Train at 11%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

The area is well served by 81 public transport stops, a total larger than about 81% of similar areas. Most of these services are buses, and the network allows over 141,000 people to be reachable within 45 minutes.

81

Higher than 80% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.

Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.

5.12

Higher than 62% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

780.9

Lower than 51% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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).

39,027

Higher than 82% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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).

141,305

Higher than 78% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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).

55

Lower than 56% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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.

A drive to the city takes about 18 minutes, which is lower than most areas. Residents typically walk about 4 minutes to reach their nearest transport stop.

4

Lower than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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.

18

Lower than 66% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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 Bexley - South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/119041670/bexley-south/topic/transport