3.0% ▼ -10.7%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bonnells Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bonnells Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Much fewer homes lack a car in Bonnells Bay than across the state, with only 3% of households without one. This makes the area heavily reliant on private vehicles for daily travel. Most residents depend on their own cars, while very few use public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home here has a vehicle, and 43.4% of households own two. This is well below the state and national figures for homes without any motor vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bonnells Bay, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive themselves to work, and 20.9% work from home, which is about the same as the national figure. Only 0.9% use public transport to commute, a figure slightly below the state and national averages.
20.9% ▲ +405.0%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -65.8%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 0.9%
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.
Bonnells Bay has 19 public transport stops and two routes, which is more than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
19
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.67
Higher than 76% 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).
248.9
Higher than 74% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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 walk to the nearest stop takes about 6 minutes, which is lower than in most areas. It takes typically 77 minutes to drive to the city.
6
Lower than 64% 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.
77
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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 Bonnells Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10466/bonnells-bay/topic/transport