Owens Gap · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Owens Gap

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

Owens Gap is a sparsely populated area where car ownership is almost universal. While it ranks higher than many similar areas in some transport categories, it actually has no public transport options available.

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📍 Owens Gap, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Owens Gap has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales rate of 9.2% for homes without a car. Nearly half of all households own two vehicles.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Owens Gap, 2 vehicles is the majority at 54%; 1 vehicle is next at 21%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 59.6% of residents. Another 21.2% work from home, a figure that is about the same as the national average.

21.2%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 15.4%
  • 2021: 21.2%

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.

How people get to work

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In Owens Gap, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Owens Gap. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.

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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 Owens Gap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13116/owens-gap/topic/transport