Gelston Park · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Gelston Park

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

Every single home in Gelston Park has at least one motor vehicle, making it far more car-reliant than the state and national averages. Most households own multiple cars, which is a necessity given the total lack of public transport options in the area.

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📍 Gelston Park, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 86% of homes have two or more cars, and the 0.0% of households without a vehicle is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Gelston Park, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 3 vehicles (31%) and 4 or more (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Getting to work is almost entirely done by car, with 70.7% of people driving. Only 8.5% of people work from home, which is far below the 21% national figure.

8.5%

Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 13.3%
  • 2021: 8.5%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Gelston Park, Car (driver) is the majority at 89%; Worked at home is next at 11%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops or routes available. This is far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.

0.00

Lower than 99% 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).

0.0

Lower than 99% 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 Gelston Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11601/gelston-park/topic/transport