Spring Plains · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Spring Plains

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

Far fewer people live without a car in Spring Plains than across the rest of the country. Every single home in the area owns at least one motor vehicle, and many households have three or more.

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📍 Spring Plains, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 50% of homes having two vehicles and 23.1% owning four or more. This means Spring Plains is well below the state and national figures for homes with no motor vehicle, which sit at 9.2% and 7.4% respectively.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Spring Plains, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 4 or more (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far more common here than the national figure, at 36.1%. While half of the workforce drives to work, no one in the area uses public transport to commute, which is well below the Australian average of 3.1%.

36.1%

Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 41.0%
  • 2021: 36.1%

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 Spring Plains, the largest group is Car (driver) at 50%, followed by Worked at home (36%) and Walked (14%).

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Spring Plains. This leaves the area far below the New South Wales average for both the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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 Spring Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13634/spring-plains/topic/transport