0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rosewood · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Rosewood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Rosewood owns a motor vehicle, which is much lower than the national figure for car-free homes. With no public transport options available, residents rely heavily on private cars to get around and reach work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Rosewood has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national rates for households without a car. Most homes have two or three vehicles, and 14.1% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rosewood, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (25%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way people get to work, with 63.7% as drivers and 7.1% as passengers. No one commutes via public transport, and the 16.8% who work from home is far below the New South Wales figure.
16.8% ▲ +223.2%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 16.8%
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: 1.7%
- 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.
There are no public transport routes or stops in Rosewood. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the state average.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Because there are no local services, the walk to the nearest stop takes 46 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
46
Higher than 77% 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 Rosewood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13428/rosewood/topic/transport