3.0% ▲ —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Collector · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Collector
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 42-minute walk to the nearest stop is the usual experience in Collector, where transport is heavily reliant on private cars. This rural area sees very few people without a vehicle, and almost no one uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 47% of homes having two vehicles and another 33.4% owning three or more. Only 3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Collector, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area commutes by public transport, though 16.4% of workers do so from home. This working-from-home rate is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
16.4% ▲ +41.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Collector has more public transport stops and routes than about 72% of similar areas, but weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average. The only available service is by bus.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.32
Higher than 79% 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).
37.2
Higher than 61% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Walking to the nearest transport stop takes much longer here than in most areas, with a typical walk of 42 minutes.
42
Higher than 75% 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.
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)).
- 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 Collector [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10972/collector/topic/transport