Brucedale · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Brucedale

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

High vehicle ownership defines Brucedale, where every single household has at least one motor vehicle. This reliance on cars is reflected in the way people get to work, with the vast majority driving or working from home.

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📍 Brucedale, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here has a car, which is well below the New South Wales rate of 9.2% for those without one. Most households are heavily equipped, with 40% owning three vehicles and 18.3% owning four or more.

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 Brucedale, the largest group is 3 vehicles at 38%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and 4 or more (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 68.2% of residents. While 18.2% work from home, this is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%.

18.2%

Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 12.6%
  • 2021: 18.2%

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 Brucedale, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 20%.

Public transport access

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

The area has 11 public transport stops, which is larger than about 82% of similar areas. However, the weekly number of departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.

59.78

Higher 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).

255.4

Higher than 74% 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.

It takes about 10 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for its level.

10

Lower than 54% 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 Brucedale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10610/brucedale/topic/transport