Ponto · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Ponto

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

A very high proportion of workers avoid the daily commute in Ponto, where 40% of people work from home. This reliance on home-based work is far above the national figure of 21%, reflecting a place where private cars and home offices are the only ways to get to work.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 4 or more at 53%, ahead of 2 vehicles (47%).

Motor vehicles per home

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Ponto splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (45%) and 2 vehicles (40%), with 1 vehicle at 15%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 40% of the workforce works from home, which is among the highest rates for areas like this and well above the New South Wales figure of 31%. No one here uses public transport to get to work, a result that is well below the national average.

40.0%

Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 15.6%
  • 2021: 40.0%

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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Ponto splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (50%) and Worked at home (50%).

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Ponto. This lack of access is far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops 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).

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ponto [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13253/ponto/topic/transport