0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Holgate · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Holgate
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 35% of people who work in Holgate do so from home, which is far above the national figure. This reliance on home-based work is a defining feature of the area, where almost every household owns at least one motor vehicle. The community is heavily dependent on cars for travel, as almost no one uses public transport to commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal here, with 0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales and national figures, and most households own multiple cars, with 39.9% having two and 21.8% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Holgate, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 4 or more (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common at 34.9%, a figure far above the Australian average. While 40.8% of workers drive, 0.0% of the workforce uses public transport to get to their jobs.
34.9% ▲ +212.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 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.
Holgate has a high number of public transport stops and routes compared to similar areas, but these are exclusively bus services. Despite this, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
12
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
11.73
Higher than 88% 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).
667.6
Higher than 81% 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).
8
Higher than 86% 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).
14,758
Lower than 55% 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.
The typical drive time to the city is 64 minutes. For those using public transport, the walk to the nearest stop takes about 15 minutes.
15
Higher than 53% 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.
64
Lower than 53% 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)).
- 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 Holgate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11928/holgate/topic/transport