Manildra · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Manildra

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

Private cars remain the essential way to get around in Manildra, where nearly 40% of homes have two vehicles. The area is very dependent on road travel, with 68.3% of workers driving themselves to work and almost no one using public transport to commute.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have multiple cars, with 18.8% owning three and 13.4% owning four or more. Only 3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

3.0% ▼ -49.5%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.0%
  • 2016: 8.5%
  • 2021: 3.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Manildra, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 68.3% of the workforce. Only 10.3% of people work from home, which is far below the 31% seen across New South Wales.

10.3% ▲ +2.0%

Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.1%
  • 2016: 8.4%
  • 2021: 10.3%

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 Manildra, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

Public transport access

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

While there are two bus routes and two stops, these services are far below the state average. Weekly departures are very low at 8.5 per 1,000 people, and no one uses public transport to get to work.

2.43

Higher than 67% 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).

8.5

Higher than 58% 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 Manildra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12483/manildra/topic/transport