4.0% ▼ -32.0%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Batlow · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Batlow
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people in Batlow rely on private cars than in most similar areas, with almost no one using public transport to get to work. The typical home has at least one vehicle, and very few residents work from home compared to the national trend.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 36.1% owning two and 14.7% owning three. Only 4.0% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Batlow splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 68.1% of residents. Very few people work from home at 6.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and no one commutes via public transport.
6.8% ▼ -2.2%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 6.8%
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: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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.
Bus services are the only form of public transport here, but access is limited. With only one stop in the area, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.79
Higher than 60% 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).
9.4
Higher than 58% 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).
4
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to a transport stop takes a long time, as the typical walk to the nearest one is 33 minutes. This is higher than most similar areas.
33
Higher than 69% 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.
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)).
- 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 Batlow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10232/batlow/topic/transport