Mulwala · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mulwala

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

Nearly 70% of workers in Mulwala drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. The area is very car-dependent, with only 3.8% of homes lacking a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure.

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📍 Mulwala, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households have at least one car, and 41.8% of homes own two vehicles. Very few residents get by without a car compared to the rest of Australia.

3.8% ▼ -13.6%

Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.4%
  • 2016: 4.2%
  • 2021: 3.8%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mulwala, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (11%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of the state, with only 8.6% doing so. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work.

8.6% ▲ +28.8%

Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.7%
  • 2016: 6.8%
  • 2021: 8.6%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.4%
  • 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 Mulwala, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 10%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is limited to buses, and the number of stops and departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales average.

1.17

Higher than 62% 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).

25.0

Higher than 60% 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 Mulwala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12841/mulwala/topic/transport