0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hyams Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Hyams Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of the workforce in Hyams Beach now works from home, a figure far above the national average. This shift highlights a strong reliance on private transport and remote work in a place where public transit is rarely used for commuting.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Hyams Beach has at least one motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales and Australian figures for households without a car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hyams Beach, 1 vehicle is the majority at 51%; 2 vehicles is next at 43%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 48.8% of the workforce doing so, which is far above the national figure of 21%. Not a single person uses public transport to get to work.
48.8% ▲ +361.5%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 48.8%
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: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
While the area has more stops per 1,000 people than the state average, actual service is far below the New South Wales figure for weekly departures. The only available public transport mode is the bus.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.30
Higher than 86% 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).
109.5
Higher than 70% 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 into the city takes a long time, with a drive time of 136 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. A walk to the nearest transport stop typically takes about 17 minutes.
17
Higher than 56% 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.
136
Higher than 87% 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 Hyams Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11974/hyams-beach/topic/transport