Shannon Vale · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Shannon Vale

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

Over half of workers in Shannon Vale drive themselves to work, reflecting a strong reliance on private cars. This is a car-dependent area where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. While many people work from home, there is almost no use of public transport for daily commutes.

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📍 Shannon Vale, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 66% of households owning three or more vehicles. This helps explain why 0% of homes are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales rate of 9.2%.

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 Shannon Vale, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 3 vehicles (21%) and 4 or more (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work, though 29.1% of people work from home, which is well above the national figure of 21%. No one in the area uses public transport to commute.

29.1%

Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 33.8%
  • 2021: 29.1%

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 Shannon Vale, Car (driver) is the majority at 60%; Worked at home is next at 32%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with no routes or stops available. This lack of access is far below the state average and means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Shannon Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13541/shannon-vale/topic/transport