Ebenezer · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Ebenezer

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

More homes here have several cars than in most similar areas, making Ebenezer a place heavily reliant on private transport. While the area has a high number of stops, almost no one uses public transport to get to work.

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📍 Ebenezer, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 65% of homes owning three or more vehicles. Only 3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

3.0% ▲ +75.2%

Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.7%
  • 2016: 2.5%
  • 2021: 3.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Ebenezer splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 4 or more (30%), with 3 vehicles at 21%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Almost no one uses public transport to get to work, and 49.1% of workers drive. Working from home is common at 24.8%, which is well above the Australian average of 21%.

24.8% ▲ +221.4%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.7%
  • 2016: 9.1%
  • 2021: 24.8%

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: 1.2%
  • 2016: 1.7%
  • 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 Ebenezer, Car (driver) is the majority at 62%; Worked at home is next at 31%.

Public transport access

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

There are 8.33 stops per 1,000 people, well above the New South Wales figure, but weekly departures are far below the state average. All available public transport is via bus.

8.33

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).

55.5

Higher than 63% 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).

0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 52 minutes, which is lower than most areas. The walk to the nearest stop takes about 11 minutes, placing the area around the middle for its level.

11

Lower 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.

52

Lower than 61% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Ebenezer [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11374/ebenezer/topic/transport