3.4% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lakewood · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lakewood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 9.0% of people in Lakewood work from home, a figure that is far below both the state and national averages. Most residents rely heavily on private cars to get around, as public transport use remains very low. This reflects a community where personal vehicles are the primary way to travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private cars are common here, with 41.6% of homes owning two vehicles. Only 3.4% 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 →Lakewood splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (42%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 73.7% of people commuting as a driver. Very few people use public transport to get to their jobs, at just 0.8%.
9.0% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
Bus services are the only option here, with one route and one stop serving the area. While this is better than some similar areas, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
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.
0.80
Higher than 60% 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).
99.3
Higher than 68% 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.
The walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 20 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this size.
20
Higher than 59% 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 Lakewood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12268/lakewood/topic/transport