0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Castlereagh · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Castlereagh
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than a third of households in Castlereagh have four or more motor vehicles, making car ownership a central part of life here. While public transport options are available, the area is heavily reliant on private cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, with 33.5% of homes owning four or more vehicles. Not a single home in the area reports having no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Castlereagh splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (34%) and 2 vehicles (30%), with 3 vehicles at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common for 27.9% of residents, a figure well above the national average. Most other people commute by car, while only 0.7% use public transport, which is a little below state and national levels.
27.9% ▲ +225.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 27.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -68.3%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
Castlereagh has 13 public transport stops and 3 routes, which is more than most similar areas. However, these are exclusively bus services and the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
13
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
10.42
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).
419.9
Higher than 77% 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).
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.
The drive time to the city is 48 minutes, which is lower than most areas. In contrast, the 21-minute walk to the nearest stop is higher than in most other places.
21
Higher than 60% 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.
48
Lower than 63% 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 Castlereagh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10849/castlereagh/topic/transport