Salisbury · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Salisbury

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

Almost every home in Salisbury has a car, making it more vehicle-reliant than most similar areas. This high dependence is clear as not a single resident uses public transport to get to work, with most people relying on their own cars or walking.

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📍 Salisbury, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single household in Salisbury owns at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales rate of 9.2% for homes without one. Most homes have two vehicles, while 19% have three or more.

0.0% —

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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In Salisbury, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (20%) and 3 vehicles (16%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one in the area uses public transport to commute, a figure well below the national average of 3.1%. Instead, 34.5% drive to work and 20.7% walk, while 17.2% work from home, which is far below the state figure of 31%.

17.2% —

Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 21.7%
  • 2021: 17.2%

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.

How people get to work

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In Salisbury, the largest group is Car (driver) at 48%, followed by Walked (29%) and Worked at home (24%).

Public transport access

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

Public transport is nonexistent here, with zero stops or routes serving the area. This is far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 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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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Salisbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13479/salisbury/topic/transport