3.5% ▼ -22.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Quaama · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Quaama
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A typical 81-minute walk to the nearest stop defines the transport landscape in Quaama. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around, with very few households lacking a motor vehicle. While public transport infrastructure exists, it is rarely used for commuting.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 3.5% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are well-equipped, with 38.9% owning two vehicles and 14.2% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Quaama, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes using public transport, and 16.4% of people work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%. The vast majority, 66.4%, drive themselves to work.
16.4% ▲ +56.6%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 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.
Quaama has 6.87 stops per 1,000 people, which is well above the New South Wales average. However, the 116.8 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure of 1,313.6.
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.
6.87
Higher than 85% 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).
116.8
Higher than 70% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
Getting to public transport is difficult, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 81 minutes, among the highest times for areas at this level.
81
Higher than 97% 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 Quaama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13298/quaama/topic/transport