1.6% ▼ -3.5%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Long Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Long Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Long Beach owns a car, making private vehicles the primary way people move around. Very few residents rely on public transport or work from home, with 66.3% of workers driving themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 46.9% of homes having two vehicles and only 1.6% having none. This lack of carless homes is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Long Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is uncommon at 11.8%, which is far below the 31% seen across New South Wales. Most people drive to work, while only 1% use public transport, a figure that is a little below the national average.
11.8% ▲ +59.4%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▲ +29.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.0%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
While Long Beach has 25 stops—far more per person than the state average—these are all for buses. Despite having a high number of stops, the number of weekly departures per person is far below the New South Wales figure.
25
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.
14.22
Higher than 89% 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).
522.2
Higher than 79% 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 typical resident spends about 12 minutes walking to the nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for similar areas.
12
Lower than 51% 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).
More for Long Beach
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Long Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12385/long-beach/topic/transport