6.7% ▼ -47.4%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Georgetown · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Georgetown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A little below the state average for car-free households, Georgetown (NSW) has 6.7% of homes without a motor vehicle. While the area is well-served by local bus stops, it remains far from the city centre with a typical 100-minute drive time.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, with 42.2% owning two vehicles. However, 6.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Georgetown splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (42%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive themselves to work, though 23.8% work from home, a figure that is a little above the national average. Very few people use public transport for their commute, at just 1.4%.
23.8% ▲ +886.2%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▼ -43.0%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 1.4%
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.
Public transport is provided entirely by buses, with 7 stops and one route serving the area. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are much higher than in most similar areas and about the same as the New South Wales figure.
7
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.38
Higher than 71% 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).
1,234.6
Higher than 88% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 a transit stop is very easy, with a typical walk time of just one minute, which is much lower than most areas. Conversely, the drive time to the city is 100 minutes, higher than in most similar places.
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.
100
Higher than 69% 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)).
- 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 Georgetown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11607/georgetown/topic/transport