Cathcart · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Cathcart

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

Almost every household in Cathcart owns a motor vehicle, making it more reliant on cars than typical Australian areas. The area has no public transport stops or routes, meaning residents depend entirely on private travel for their daily needs.

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📍 Cathcart, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Cathcart has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% for homes without a car. Most households are well-equipped, with 48.6% owning two vehicles and 22.9% owning three.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Cathcart, 2 vehicles is the majority at 55%; 3 vehicles is next at 26%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 61.7% of people driving and 6.4% travelling as passengers. No one in the area works from home, a figure that is far below the New South Wales average of 31%.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 8.5%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 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 Cathcart, Car (driver) is the majority at 83%; Car (passenger) is next at 9%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This leaves the area far below the New South Wales average for both stop density and weekly departures.

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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 Cathcart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10854/cathcart/topic/transport