Limekilns · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Limekilns

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

Every single home in Limekilns has at least one motor vehicle, making it a place where residents rely heavily on their own transport. With no public transport options available, the area's transport landscape is entirely dominated by private car use.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have multiple cars, with 36.8% owning two and 34.2% owning three. This means the percentage of homes without a vehicle is 0.0%, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Limekilns splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (33%), with 1 vehicle at 15%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Two-thirds of workers drive themselves to work, while 19.0% work from home. This proportion of home workers is a little below the Australian figure of 21.0% and far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%.

19.0%

Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 10.0%
  • 2021: 19.0%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Limekilns, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This puts the area far below the New South Wales average for stop frequency and weekly departures.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting into the city is a significant journey, with a drive time of 156 minutes. This is among the highest drive times for similar areas.

156

Higher than 91% 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 Limekilns [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12339/limekilns/topic/transport