4.8% ▼ -31.5%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Karabar · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Karabar
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 0.7% of workers use public transport to get to work in Karabar, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars. While the area has a good number of bus stops and routes compared to similar places, very few people actually use them for the daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 37% having two vehicles and 15.5% having three. Only 4.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is lower than the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Karabar splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 72.8% of people as the main driver. Only 6.7% of residents work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
6.7% ▲ +274.7%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -43.7%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
Karabar has 33 public transport stops and three routes, which is more than about 82% of similar areas. However, the 503.5 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure of 1,313.6.
33
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.87
Higher than 73% 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).
503.5
Higher than 78% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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 to a transit point is easy, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes just one minute, which is much lower than most areas.
1
Lower 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 Karabar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12079/karabar/topic/transport