4.0% ▼ -41.4%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Buff Point · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Buff Point
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 4% of homes in Buff Point lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average of 7.4%. This reliance on cars is a defining feature of the area, where most households own at least one or two vehicles. While public transport options exist, they are rarely used for daily commutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 40.6% owning two and 11.3% owning three. This explains why the proportion of homes without a vehicle is much lower than the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Buff Point splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
More than half of workers drive themselves to work, and 18.9% work from home. This working-from-home rate is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%, while only 1.2% of the workforce use public transport.
18.9% ▲ +499.2%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -34.5%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
Buff Point has a high number of bus stops and routes compared to similar areas, with 33 stops in total. However, this has not translated into high accessibility, as no one can reach other people within 45 minutes using transit.
33
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.27
Higher than 87% 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).
952.0
Higher than 86% 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).
4
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Walking to the nearest stop takes only 3 minutes, which is much lower than most areas. Despite this proximity, the drive time to the city is 74 minutes, placing it around the middle for its level.
3
Lower than 79% 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.
74
Higher than 53% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Buff Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10642/buff-point/topic/transport