6.3% ▼ -18.9%
Higher than 68% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sydney - Outer West and Blue Mountains · Region (SA4)
Transport & Vehicles in Sydney - Outer West and Blue Mountains
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge 28.3% of workers in Sydney - Outer West and Blue Mountains now work from home, a massive jump from just 3.7% in 2011. This shift away from the office is a defining feature of the area's transport landscape, where working from home is now the second most common way people get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here own at least one car, with 37.2% having two vehicles. Only 6.3% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little below the state and national rates and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Sydney - Outer West and Blue Mountains splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than in most of Australia. Meanwhile, only 1.6% of people use public transport to get to work, a figure that is a little below the national average and has fallen sharply since 2011.
28.3% ▲ +664.8%
Higher than 86% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 28.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.6% ▼ -75.0%
Lower than 60% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 6.99 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is well above the New South Wales figure. While the region has a large number of stops and routes, weekly departures per person are a little below the state average.
2,320
Higher than 84% of region (sa4) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.99
Higher than 97% of region (sa4) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,189.8
Higher than 61% of region (sa4) 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).
92
Higher than 67% of region (sa4) 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 Sydney - Outer West and Blue Mountains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/124/sydney-outer-west-and-blue-mountains/topic/transport