0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Big Springs · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Big Springs
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of workers in Big Springs drive to work, reflecting a community where cars are essential. The area is almost entirely dependent on private vehicles, with no one relying on public transport to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Big Springs has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. Most households are well-equipped, with 37% owning three vehicles and 21.7% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Big Springs splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (35%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 4 or more at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 24% of people work from home—a bit above the national figure—the rest mainly drive, as no one uses public transport to commute. A small number of residents walk to work, accounting for 4%.
24.0% ▼ -5.2%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 24.0%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Big Springs. This means service levels are far below the New South Wales average, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% 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).
0.0
Lower than 99% 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).
0
Lower than 99% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Big Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10344/big-springs/topic/transport