Black Springs · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Black Springs

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Few areas are as reliant on private cars as Black Springs, where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. With no public transport available, residents depend on their own cars for almost all travel and work trips.

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📍 Black Springs, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 39.4% of homes having two vehicles and 25.4% owning three. This means the 0% of homes without a vehicle is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.2%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Black Springs, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 3 vehicles (26%) and 1 vehicle (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 65.6% being the driver. This is reflected in the 13.3% who work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.

13.3% ▼ -32.6%

Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 19.8%
  • 2016: 11.9%
  • 2021: 13.3%

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.

How people get to work

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In Black Springs, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. Consequently, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Black Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10388/black-springs/topic/transport