Palmwoods · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Palmwoods

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

Almost every single household in Palmwoods (NSW) owns a motor vehicle, marking it as a place far more reliant on cars than the national average. This dependency is clear across the board, with no residents using public transport for their daily commute.

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📍 Palmwoods, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in the area has at least one vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales and national figures for households without a car. Most homes have one or two vehicles, though 13.6% of households own four or more.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Palmwoods splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (30%) and 2 vehicles (30%), with 3 vehicles at 25%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 20.7% of people work from home, which is about the same as the national figure. No one uses public transport to get to work, and the remaining residents mostly rely on cars.

20.7%

Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 20.0%
  • 2021: 20.7%

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 Palmwoods, Car (driver) is the majority at 55%; Worked at home is next at 30%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means access to services is far below the state average, with zero 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).

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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 Palmwoods [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13150/palmwoods/topic/transport