Bookham · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Bookham

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

More people work from home in Bookham than in most similar areas, with 35.3% of the workforce doing so. This high rate of home-based work is a key feature of the area, where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle.

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📍 Bookham, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No home in Bookham is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the 7.4% national average. Most households are well-equipped, with 15.6% owning four or more vehicles.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Bookham splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (30%) and 1 vehicle (27%), with 3 vehicles at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 35.3% of people work from home, which is far above the Australian figure of 21%. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, and 30.9% drive themselves.

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Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 17.6%
  • 2016: 17.1%
  • 2021: 35.3%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

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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 Bookham, the largest group is Worked at home at 46%, followed by Car (driver) (40%) and Walked (13%).

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Bookham. This leaves the area with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the New South Wales figure.

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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).

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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 Bookham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10476/bookham/topic/transport