0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Blue Knob · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Blue Knob
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Cars are essential for daily life in Blue Knob, where not a single household is without a motor vehicle. This heavy reliance on driving is reflected in the way people get to work and the limited use of public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in the area has at least one vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2% for homes without cars. About half of all households have one car, while 33% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Blue Knob, 1 vehicle is the majority at 51%; 2 vehicles is next at 33%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 59.3% of residents. No one uses public transport for their commute, and the 16.9% of people working from home is well below the national figure of 21%.
16.9% ▲ +16.2%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 16.9%
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 Blue Knob has 5 bus stops—far more per person than the state average—the number of weekly departures is far below the New South Wales figure.
5
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
23.81
Higher than 94% 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).
238.1
Higher than 73% 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.
The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 12 minutes.
12
Lower than 51% 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 Blue Knob [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10415/blue-knob/topic/transport