0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sawyers Gully · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sawyers Gully
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people in Sawyers Gully rely on public transport compared to similar areas. The community is almost entirely dependent on cars, with no one in the area without a motor vehicle. This reflects a remote setting where residents face long travel times to reach the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Sawyers Gully has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households own multiple cars, with 34.2% having two and 27.3% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sawyers Gully, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 35%, followed by 4 or more (28%) and 3 vehicles (23%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost all workers drive themselves, with 68.3% commuting by car. Those who work from home make up 11.1% of the group, which is far below the state figure of 31%.
11.1% ▲ +40.0%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 11.1%
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 means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 0.0, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.
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.
Getting around is difficult without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 49 minutes. This is much higher than most areas, and the drive time to the city is 104 minutes.
49
Higher than 79% 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.
104
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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 Sawyers Gully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13514/sawyers-gully/topic/transport