0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lower Mangrove · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lower Mangrove
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A high rate of car ownership defines Lower Mangrove, where no households are without a motor vehicle. This reliance on cars is mirrored in the way people travel, with almost half of the workforce driving to work and 25.9% working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in Lower Mangrove has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2% for homes without a car. About 42% of households have two vehicles, while 25% own three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lower Mangrove splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost half of workers drive to their jobs, and 25.9% work from home, which is well above the national figure of 21%. No one in the area uses public transport to commute.
25.9% —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 25.9%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
While the area has 28.57 public transport stops per 1,000 people—far above the state average—the number of weekly departures is far below New South Wales. All available transit is provided by bus.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
28.57
Higher than 97% 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).
142.9
Higher than 72% 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Walking to the nearest stop takes about 29 minutes, which is higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is 76 minutes, placing the area around the middle for its level.
29
Higher than 66% 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.
76
Higher than 54% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Lower Mangrove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12418/lower-mangrove/topic/transport