0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pheasants Nest · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pheasants Nest
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single home in Pheasants Nest is without a motor vehicle, making it an area where car ownership is absolute. This total reliance on cars is reflected in the way people get to work and the total lack of local public transport options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 30.8% of homes owning four or more vehicles and 31.3% having two. The proportion of homes without a car is 0.0%, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Pheasants Nest splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 4 or more (31%), with 3 vehicles at 22%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive to their jobs, while 27.1% work from home, a figure well above the national average. Very few use public transport, with only 0.8% of commuters taking a train or bus.
27.1% ▲ +182.5%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -19.7%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops, routes, or departures. This is far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Reaching the city takes about 64 minutes by car. For those without a vehicle, the walk to the nearest transport stop takes 87 minutes, which is among the highest times for areas of this type.
87
Higher than 99% 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.
64
Lower than 53% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
More for Pheasants Nest
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Pheasants Nest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13203/pheasants-nest/topic/transport