5.7% ▼ -38.9%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Deepwater · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Deepwater
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of the working population in Deepwater drive themselves to work. This reliance on cars is a key feature of the area, where very few people use public transport to commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, though 5.7% of households have no motor vehicle. This is much higher than most similar areas, but it remains well below the New South Wales figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Deepwater splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nobody in Deepwater commutes using public transport. Instead, 56.5% drive to work and 21.1% work from home, which is about the same as the national figure.
21.1% ▲ +469.4%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 21.1%
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.
The area has two public transport routes and one stop, all for buses. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.19
Higher than 66% 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).
30.7
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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
Getting to the nearest public transport stop takes a typical resident about 72 minutes, which is much higher than in most other areas.
72
Higher than 92% 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).
More for Deepwater
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Deepwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11233/deepwater/topic/transport