10.0% ▼ -44.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Great Mackerel Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Great Mackerel Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero public transport services mean residents of Great Mackerel Beach rely almost entirely on private cars to get around. This isolation is reflected in the fact that no one in the area can reach another person via transit within 45 minutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of all homes have one vehicle and 20% have two. About 10% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and slightly above the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Great Mackerel Beach, 1 vehicle is the majority at 61%; 2 vehicles is next at 26%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The most common how people get to work is Walked at 37%, ahead of Worked at home (37%).
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent here, with no routes, stops, or departures. This puts the area far below the New South Wales average for stops and weekly services per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Despite the lack of services, the walk to the nearest stop takes only 4 minutes, which is shorter than the experience in most areas.
4
Lower than 71% 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)).
- 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 Great Mackerel Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11751/great-mackerel-beach/topic/transport