3.2% ▼ -8.2%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barellan · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barellan
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Barellan, where almost every home owns at least one vehicle. This reliance on driving is reflected in the commute, with over half of workers driving themselves to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 3.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households keep one or two cars, though 17.1% of homes have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Barellan splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (34%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 4 or more at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the Australian average of 3.1%. Instead, 56.5% drive themselves and 10.7% walk, while 17.3% work from home.
17.3% ▼ -11.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
While there are two bus routes and two stops, services are very infrequent. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are 30.5, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.36
Higher than 75% 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).
30.5
Higher than 61% 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).
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 Barellan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10198/barellan/topic/transport