0.9% ▼ -39.8%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gulmarrad · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Gulmarrad
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one in Gulmarrad uses public transport, creating a massive gap compared to the rest of New South Wales. With no transport stops or routes available, the area relies almost entirely on private cars to get around. This is a place where owning a vehicle is a necessity for daily life.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with over half of homes owning two vehicles and 11.5% having four or more. Only 0.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Gulmarrad, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 1 vehicle is next at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, as 65.3% of people are car drivers. Very few people work from home at 10%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and no one commutes using public transport.
10.0% ▲ +48.7%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 10.0%
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: 0.5%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Access to transport is very limited, with the walk to the nearest stop taking 89 minutes. This is among the highest times recorded for areas at this level.
89
Higher 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 Gulmarrad [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11801/gulmarrad/topic/transport