Rock Flat · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Rock Flat

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

Not a single home in Rock Flat is without a motor vehicle. This makes it a place where private transport is essential, with half of all households owning at least two cars.

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📍 Rock Flat, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Private transport is the norm here, with 25% of homes owning four or more vehicles and 30% owning two. This means 0% of homes lack a car, a figure well below the 9.2% seen across New South Wales.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.3%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Rock Flat, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 4 or more (31%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 56% of residents. Around 18% of people work from home, which is well below the national figure of 21% and far below the 31% across the state.

18.0% ▲ +20.6%

Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 14.9%
  • 2016: 25.0%
  • 2021: 18.0%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Rock Flat, Car (driver) is the majority at 76%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. Consequently, 0% of people use public transport to commute, which is well below the 3.1% national average.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Rock Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13391/rock-flat/topic/transport