0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bilbul · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bilbul
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single household in Bilbul owns a car, making it far more reliant on private vehicles than the state or national average. While the area has a high number of transport stops relative to its population, very few people use them for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No homes in Bilbul are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households are well-equipped, with 40.2% owning two vehicles and 14.4% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bilbul, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 73.9% of residents being the driver. Very few people work from home at 10.6%, a figure far below the 21% national average, and nobody uses public transport to commute.
10.6% ▲ +29.7%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 10.6%
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: 1.0%
- 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.
Bilbul has 25.6 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the New South Wales average of 5.27. However, there is only one bus route, and weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure.
15
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
25.60
Higher than 95% 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).
170.6
Higher than 72% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 stop is a challenge here, as the typical walk to the nearest one takes 31 minutes. This is higher than in most similar areas.
31
Higher than 67% 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 Bilbul [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10348/bilbul/topic/transport