Parkesbourne · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Parkesbourne

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

Nearly 32% of homes in Parkesbourne have three motor vehicles, making the area heavily reliant on private transport. Every single household here owns at least one vehicle, which is well below the national and state figures for carless homes.

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📍 Parkesbourne, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 14.3% of households owning four or more vehicles. No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the 9.2% seen across New South Wales.

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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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Parkesbourne splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (35%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 1 vehicle at 16%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, while 24.1% work from home, which is well above the Australian figure. No one in the area uses public transport to commute, which is well below the national average.

24.1% ▲ +59.5%

Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 15.1%
  • 2016: 8.9%
  • 2021: 24.1%

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

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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 Parkesbourne, Car (driver) is the majority at 68%; Worked at home is next at 26%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and routes. This puts the area far below the New South Wales average for stops and 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the city takes a long time, with a typical drive time of 133 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas.

133

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
  • Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Parkesbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13163/parkesbourne/topic/transport