5.7% ▼ -13.8%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Shellharbour · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Shellharbour
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only one minute is the typical walk to the nearest stop in Shellharbour, making it much more accessible than most areas. While the region has a high number of transport stops, the vast majority of residents still rely on cars or working from home to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 37.6% owning two. Only 5.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas but well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Shellharbour splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive to work, while 20.2% work from home, a figure that is higher than most similar areas. Very few people use public transport for their commute, at just 0.2%.
20.2% ▲ +707.8%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -88.4%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 0.2%
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.
Shellharbour provides 7.95 stops per 1,000 people, which is well above the state figure of 5.27. All of these public transport options are bus services, with 28 stops and 3 routes serving the area.
28
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.95
Higher than 86% 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).
1,233.0
Higher than 88% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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.
The typical walk to the nearest stop is just one minute, which is much lower than most areas. The drive time to the city is 78 minutes, placing it around the middle for areas of this level.
1
Lower than 99% 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.
78
Higher than 55% 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).
More for Shellharbour
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Shellharbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13548/shellharbour/topic/transport