Captains Flat · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Captains Flat

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

Private cars are essential for everyone in Captains Flat, where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars is reflected in the local commute, as no one uses public transport to get to work.

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📍 Captains Flat, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in the area has a car, which is well below the state and national figures for homes without a vehicle. About 37.7% of homes have one car, while 36.9% have two.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.0%
  • 2016: 2.7%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Captains Flat splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work, with 66.6% of people as the driver and 5.7% as passengers. Only 11.4% of workers stay at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.

11.4% ▲ +66.2%

Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.8%
  • 2016: 3.9%
  • 2021: 11.4%

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: 0.8%
  • 2016: 1.1%
  • 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 Captains Flat, Car (driver) is the majority at 76%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes available here. This lack of access is far below the state average, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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 Captains Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10803/captains-flat/topic/transport