Pejar · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Pejar

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

More than half of working residents in Pejar drive to work, making cars the primary way to get around. While most homes own multiple vehicles, a significant 30.6% of the workforce operates from home, which is well above the national figure.

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📍 Pejar, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Pejar has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the rates for New South Wales and Australia. Most households are well-equipped, with 24.1% owning four or more vehicles.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Pejar, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 4 or more (25%) and 3 vehicles (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here at 30.6%, a figure that is well above the Australian average. In contrast, no one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below national levels.

30.6%

Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 22.7%
  • 2021: 30.6%

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 Pejar, Car (driver) is the majority at 59%; Worked at home is next at 32%.

Public transport access

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

The area has 6 public transport stops and one bus route, resulting in 89.55 stops per 1,000 people. This is far above the New South Wales figure and among the highest for similar areas.

89.55

Higher 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).

1,343.3

Higher than 88% 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.

Despite the high number of stops per person, getting to them is a challenge, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 27 minutes.

27

Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.

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 Pejar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13187/pejar/topic/transport