Rushes Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Rushes Creek

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

Driving a car is the most common way to get around in Rushes Creek, where 39% of workers commute as the driver. However, the area has a very high proportion of people working from home, which is far above the national figure.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Rushes Creek has at least one motor vehicle, a figure well below the state and national averages. Nearly 30% of households own four or more vehicles.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Rushes Creek splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (29%) and 2 vehicles (27%), with 4 or more at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 32.2% of workers doing so—far above the 21% national figure. Around 5.1% of people use public transport to get to work, which is a little above the state and national averages.

32.2%

Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 25.0%
  • 2021: 32.2%

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

5.1%

Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 5.1%

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 Rushes Creek, the largest group is Car (driver) at 47%, followed by Worked at home (39%) and Walked (8%).

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Rushes Creek. This leaves the area far below New South Wales in terms of weekly departures and 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).

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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 Rushes Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13460/rushes-creek/topic/transport