17.6% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pottery Estate · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pottery Estate
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes here lack a motor vehicle than in most similar areas, with 17.6% of Pottery Estate households having no car. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. While many residents rely on cars, there is surprisingly high access to public transport services for the size of the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 17.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure of 7.4%. For those who do own cars, nearly half of all households have just one vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Pottery Estate, 1 vehicle is the majority at 52%; No vehicle is next at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is much less common here than elsewhere, at 11.1% compared to 21% nationally. Most people drive to work, while no one uses public transport for their commute.
11.1% —
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 11.1%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport access is very high, with 3,116 weekly departures per 1,000 people, far above the state figure of 1,313. There are six bus routes serving the area across two stops.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
17.86
Higher than 91% 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).
3,116.1
Higher than 98% 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).
6
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 110 minutes to drive to the city, which is much longer than in most areas. Walking to the nearest transport stop takes around 8 minutes.
8
Lower than 57% 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.
110
Higher than 75% 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 Pottery Estate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13266/pottery-estate/topic/transport