Smiths Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Smiths Creek

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

Almost every single household in Smiths Creek owns a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national and state rates for car-less homes. This high reliance on private cars is the defining feature of local travel, with very few residents working from home or using other options.

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📍 Smiths Creek, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here has at least one vehicle, with 43.5% owning two and 21.7% owning three. This means far fewer households are without a car compared to the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 12.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Smiths Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, and 11.1% work from home, which is far below the 31% seen across New South Wales. No one in the area uses public transport to get to their job.

11.1%

Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 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.

  • 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 Smiths Creek, Car (driver) is the majority at 85%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

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 number of weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the state figure of 1,313.6.

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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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Smiths Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13577/smiths-creek/topic/transport