Culburra Beach · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Culburra Beach

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

Nearly 63% of workers in Culburra Beach drive themselves to work, reflecting a strong reliance on cars. While there are plenty of bus stops, very few people actually use public transport to get to their jobs.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households here own at least one car, with 38.9% owning two. Only 4.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.

4.6% ▼ -43.0%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.1%
  • 2016: 5.9%
  • 2021: 4.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Culburra Beach splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (42%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Not a single person in the area commutes by public transport. While 15.7% of residents work from home, this is far below the state figure of 31%.

15.7% ▲ +310.1%

Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.8%
  • 2016: 5.0%
  • 2021: 15.7%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.9%
  • 2016: 0.7%
  • 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 Culburra Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

Public transport access

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

Culburra Beach has 28 bus stops and 2 routes, meaning it has far more stops per person than the state average. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the New South Wales figure.

9.50

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).

185.0

Higher than 73% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting into the city takes much longer than in most similar areas, with a typical drive time of 126 minutes. The walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 15 minutes.

15

Higher than 53% 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.

126

Higher than 84% 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)).
  • 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 Culburra Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11147/culburra-beach/topic/transport