Lacmalac · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Lacmalac

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Every single home in Lacmalac has at least one motor vehicle, making cars essential for daily life. The area relies almost entirely on private transport, with no one using public transit to get to work and very few people working from home.

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📍 Lacmalac, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households are well-equipped for travel, with 43.1% owning three vehicles and 39.2% owning two. This means the proportion of homes without a car is 0%, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Lacmalac splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (42%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 1 vehicle at 11%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 76.1% of people as the driver and 3.4% as a passenger. Only 12.5% of workers stay at home, a figure that is far below the New South Wales average of 31%.

12.5% ▲ +39.6%

Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 9.0%
  • 2016: 10.0%
  • 2021: 12.5%

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.

How people get to work

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In Lacmalac, Car (driver) is the majority at 83%; Worked at home is next at 14%.

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. Consequently, weekly departures per 1,000 people are 0.0, which is far below the state figure.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lacmalac [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12239/lacmalac/topic/transport