Charleys Forest · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Charleys Forest

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

Nearly 40% of households in Charleys Forest have two motor vehicles, making cars the primary way people move around. This is a highly car-dependent area where no homes lack a vehicle and public transport is completely absent. The reliance on cars is clear, as over 63% of workers drive themselves to their jobs.

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📍 Charleys Forest, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Charleys Forest has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2% for homes without one. About 21% of households own three or more vehicles.

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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 Charleys Forest, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 34%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 63.3% of residents, and 13.3% work from home. This is well below the national figure of 21% for home-based work, while no one uses public transport to commute.

13.3%

Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 13.3%

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 Charleys Forest, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the New South Wales figure.

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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 Charleys Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10885/charleys-forest/topic/transport