Bowan Park · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Bowan Park

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

Almost every household in Bowan Park relies on a car to get around, as there is no public transport available. This total dependence on private vehicles is seen in the fact that not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle.

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📍 Bowan Park, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is high, with 43.9% of homes owning two vehicles and 31.7% owning three. The 0.0% of homes without a car is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.

0.0% → —

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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In Bowan Park, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 3 vehicles (30%) and 1 vehicle (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here commutes using public transport, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.1%. Instead, 43.9% of workers drive themselves, while 22.8% work from home, a rate a little above the national figure.

22.8% ▲ +55.2%

Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 14.7%
  • 2016: 23.6%
  • 2021: 22.8%

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 Bowan Park, Car (driver) is the majority at 66%; Worked at home is next at 34%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops and routes. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 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 Bowan Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10525/bowan-park/topic/transport