Bywong · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Bywong

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

Bywong stands out among similar areas for its extreme reliance on private cars. Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, a stark contrast to the national trend where some households have none.

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📍 Bywong, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households are heavily equipped for travel, with 85.4% owning three or more vehicles. This high level of car ownership is reflected in the fact that no homes in Bywong are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales and Australian figures.

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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 Bywong, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (26%) and 4 or more (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 64.3% of residents. While 15.4% of people work from home, this is far below the state figure of 31.0%.

15.4% ▲ +128.1%

Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.7%
  • 2016: 8.3%
  • 2021: 15.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.4% ▼ -6.3%

Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.4%
  • 2016: 0.9%
  • 2021: 0.4%

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 Bywong, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in Bywong, with zero stops and zero routes. This leaves the area far below the New South Wales average for service frequency and stop density.

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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 Bywong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10733/bywong/topic/transport