4.7% ▼ -45.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Smithtown · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Smithtown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero percent of workers use public transport to get to their jobs in Smithtown. Most people rely on cars, though the area has a high number of transport stops relative to its small population.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, with 36.5% falling into each category. Only 4.7% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but well below the New South Wales rate of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Smithtown splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 66.4% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 4.5%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
4.5% ▲ —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 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.
Smithtown has 9.6 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average of 5.27. Despite these six bus stops, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales figure.
6
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.60
Higher than 87% 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).
91.2
Higher than 67% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
It is very easy to reach a stop on foot, with a typical walk of just one minute, which is much lower than most areas.
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.
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 Smithtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13580/smithtown/topic/transport