18.5% ▼ -11.8%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Carramar · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Carramar
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes in Carramar lack a car than in most similar areas, with 18.5% of households owning no vehicle. This lack of car ownership is well above the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. This trend is reflected in the way people move, as the area has a higher rate of public transport use for commuting than the state and national averages.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly one in five homes (18.5%) have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the Australian average of 7.4%. For those who do own cars, 43.7% of households have one vehicle and 24.0% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Carramar, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (24%) and No vehicle (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for commuting is well above the New South Wales figure at 5.8%. While half of workers drive to work, 19.0% work from home, which is a little below the national figure of 21.0%.
19.0% ▲ +1816.5%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.8% ▼ -63.3%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 5.8%
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.
Carramar is very well served by infrastructure, with 22 public transport stops and 6.33 stops per 1,000 people, which is a little above the state average. However, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales figure.
22
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.
6.33
Higher than 83% 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).
740.7
Higher than 83% 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).
3
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
25,980
Higher than 79% 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).
231,413
Higher than 87% 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).
69
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to local transport is very easy, with the walk to the nearest stop taking only 1 minute. The drive time to the city is also much lower than most areas at 25 minutes.
1
Lower than 99% 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.
25
Lower than 79% 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 Carramar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10825/carramar/topic/transport