Boorabee Park · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Boorabee Park

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

Nearly 60% of homes in Boorabee Park have two motor vehicles, making cars the primary way people get around. This is a highly car-dependent area where almost no one uses public transport to commute, and far fewer people work from home compared to the national figure.

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📍 Boorabee Park, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 12.8% of homes owning four or more vehicles. Not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales rate of 9.2%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Boorabee Park, 2 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 1 vehicle is next at 28%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 59.7% as the driver and 4.2% as a passenger. Only 9.7% of people work from home, a figure that is far below both the state and national averages.

9.7%

Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 17.8%
  • 2021: 9.7%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Boorabee Park, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

Public transport access

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

While there is one bus route and one stop, the 68.5 weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6. No one in the area uses public transport for their daily commute.

6.85

Higher than 85% 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).

68.5

Higher than 65% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Walking to the nearest public transport stop takes about 22 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.

22

Higher than 60% 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 Boorabee Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10492/boorabee-park/topic/transport