0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sandy Flat · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sandy Flat
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive gap in public transport access defines Sandy Flat, where 42.2% of workers operate from home. This is far above the national figure of 21%. Residents rely almost entirely on their own cars to get around this sparsely populated area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home here owns at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2% for homes without a car. Most households keep two or three vehicles to get around.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Sandy Flat splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 3 vehicles (38%), with 1 vehicle at 22%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, occurring at a rate far above the 31% seen across New South Wales. Those who do leave for work mostly drive, with no one using public transport.
42.2% ▲ +64.2%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 42.2%
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.
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. This puts the local access far below the state average, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Sandy Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13498/sandy-flat/topic/transport