2.6% ▼ -49.1%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brightwaters · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Brightwaters
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge 27.3% of people work from home in Brightwaters, which is well above the national figure. This reliance on home-based work is a defining feature of the area, as very few residents use public transport to commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 43.4% owning two vehicles and 14.9% owning three. Only 2.6% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Brightwaters, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area uses public transport to get to work. Over half of workers drive themselves, while the high number of people working from home helps explain why public transport usage is so low.
27.3% ▲ +358.1%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
While there are 6 bus stops and more stops per 1,000 people than the state average, actual service is limited. Weekly departures per person are far below the New South Wales figure.
6
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.86
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).
305.1
Higher than 75% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 typical walk to the nearest stop is short at just 6 minutes. However, the drive time to the city is 88 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
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.
88
Higher than 62% 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 Brightwaters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10567/brightwaters/topic/transport