Dalgety · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Dalgety

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

Car reliance is almost total in Dalgety, where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle. This heavy dependence on cars is mirrored in the way people get to work, with the vast majority driving or working from home.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Dalgety has a car, which is well below the 7.4% of Australian households without one. Most families have multiple vehicles, with 38.9% owning two and 27.4% owning three.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 3.6%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Dalgety, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 1 vehicle (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work, though 24% of people work from home, a figure a little above the national average. No one in the area uses public transport to commute.

24.0% ▲ +13.6%

Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 21.1%
  • 2016: 13.9%
  • 2021: 24.0%

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: 2.8%
  • 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 Dalgety, Car (driver) is the majority at 64%; Worked at home is next at 28%.

Public transport access

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

While the area has more stops per 1,000 people than the state average, service is very limited. Weekly departures are far below the New South Wales figure, with only two bus routes available.

7.94

Higher than 86% 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).

23.8

Higher than 60% 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 Dalgety [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11191/dalgety/topic/transport