Parraweena · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Parraweena

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

A massive gap in public transport access defines Parraweena, where no one uses it to get to work. With zero public transport stops or routes serving the area, the vast majority of workers rely on their own cars to commute.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 3 vehicles at 64%, ahead of 4 or more (64%).

Motor vehicles per home

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Parraweena splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (43%) and 4 or more (43%), with 1 vehicle at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most of the workforce drives to work, with 57.9% using a car as the driver. Only 7.9% work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.

7.9% ▼ -75.8%

Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 32.6%
  • 2016: 22.7%
  • 2021: 7.9%

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 Parraweena, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Walked is next at 11%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Parraweena. This puts the area far below the state average for weekly departures and stops per person.

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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 Parraweena [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13168/parraweena/topic/transport