Elizabeth Beach · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Elizabeth Beach

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

Not a single home in Elizabeth Beach is without a motor vehicle. This makes it a highly car-dependent area where the vast majority of residents rely on their own transport to get around.

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📍 Elizabeth Beach, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, with 49.5% of homes owning two vehicles and 17.2% owning three. This is well below the national figure for households with no vehicle, which sits at 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.7%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Elizabeth Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (16%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most workers drive, with 57.1% as the driver and 22.9% working from home. While the proportion of home workers is a little above the Australian figure, no one in the area commutes by public transport.

22.9% ▲ +114.9%

Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.6%
  • 2016: 11.2%
  • 2021: 22.9%

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: 3.1%
  • 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 Elizabeth Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Worked at home is next at 26%.

Public transport access

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

Four bus stops provide access to the area, which is more than 76% of similar places. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the New South Wales figure.

15.44

Higher than 90% 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).

77.2

Higher than 66% 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 to the nearest stop is very quick, with a typical walk of just 1 minute, which is much lower than most areas.

1

Lower than 99% 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 Elizabeth Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11399/elizabeth-beach/topic/transport