Bowman · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Bowman

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

Zero households without a car makes Bowman a place where vehicle ownership is essential. Every single home has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.

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📍 Bowman, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have two vehicles (46%), while 20% have three and 8% have four or more. This high level of ownership means no one in the area relies solely on other options for travel.

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 Bowman, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Over half of workers drive to their jobs (54.2%), while 18.8% work from home. This rate of working from home is a little below the national figure and far below the New South Wales average.

18.8% ▼ -21.8%

Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 24.0%
  • 2016: 17.0%
  • 2021: 18.8%

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 Bowman, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 26%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with no stops or routes available. This is far below the state average and explains why 0% of people use public transport to get to work.

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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 Bowman [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10529/bowman/topic/transport