1.5% ▼ -64.1%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Callala Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Callala Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A drive time of 128 minutes to the city defines the remote nature of Callala Bay. This is a car-dependent area where almost every home owns a vehicle and very few people use public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes lack a car, with only 1.5% having none, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households are well-equipped for travel, and 40.9% have two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Callala Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nobody here commutes by public transport, and the 11.0% who work from home is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%. Most people rely on their own car to get to work, with 65.4% driving themselves.
11.0% ▲ +95.4%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 11.0%
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: 0.8%
- 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 Callala Bay has 10 bus stops and more routes than many similar areas, the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure. All public transport in the area is provided by buses.
10
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.48
Higher than 75% 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).
97.1
Higher than 68% 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 drive to the city is much longer than in most areas, taking 128 minutes. For those using local services, a 10-minute walk to the nearest stop is typical for this level of area.
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.
128
Higher than 85% 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 Callala Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10756/callala-bay/topic/transport