Obley · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Obley

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

Almost every household in Obley owns a car, making it more reliant on private vehicles than most similar areas. This is a place where the vast majority of residents drive to work or operate from home, with no public transport options available.

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📍 Obley, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Private cars are essential here, as 0% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. More than half of all households own two vehicles, and 17.6% have four or more.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Obley, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 4 or more (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 57.1% of residents. Another 21.4% work from home, a figure that is about the same as the national average, while 0% of the workforce uses public transport.

21.4% ▼ -7.6%

Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 23.2%
  • 2016: 24.4%
  • 2021: 21.4%

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: 1.4%
  • 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 Obley, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 27%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Obley. This leaves the area far below the New South Wales average for weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Obley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13080/obley/topic/transport