1.2% ▼ -20.5%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Jamberoo · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Jamberoo
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people work from home in Jamberoo than in most similar areas, with 30.4% of the workforce doing so. This reliance on home-based work is consistent with a town where cars are essential and public transport is rarely used for commuting.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are very common here, with 44.6% of homes having two vehicles and 13% owning four or more. Only 1.2% 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 Jamberoo, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is a major trend for 30.4% of residents, a figure well above the national average of 21%. Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.3%.
30.4% ▲ +265.8%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -58.0%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Jamberoo has 12 stops and more routes than most similar areas, actual service is low. The 81.2 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure of 1,313.6, and all services are buses.
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.
6.28
Higher than 83% 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).
81.2
Higher than 66% 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 around without a car is difficult, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 24 minutes. It also takes 87 minutes to drive to the city, which is longer than in most similar areas.
24
Higher than 62% 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.
87
Higher than 61% 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 Jamberoo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12007/jamberoo/topic/transport