6.9% ▼ -23.9%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Forster · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Forster
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Forster than across the rest of the country, with only 9.8% doing so. While the area has a high number of public transport stops, the reliance on cars remains very high for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of all homes have one motor vehicle and a third have two. About 6.9% of households have no vehicle, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Forster, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 64.9% being the driver. Very few people use public transport to commute (0.4%), and the rate of working from home is far below the New South Wales figure.
9.8% ▲ +115.1%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
Forster has 137 public transport stops, which is among the largest for its size and puts the number of stops per person far above the state average. All services are provided by buses, though the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure.
137
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.66
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).
332.3
Higher than 75% 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).
10
Higher than 86% 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 about 31 minutes, which is higher than in most areas.
31
Higher than 67% 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 Forster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11553/forster/topic/transport