0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Swan Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Swan Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly every single home in Swan Bay owns at least one motor vehicle. This heavy reliance on cars defines how people move, with almost 80% of households owning two or more vehicles to get around. While there are some public transport options, they are rarely used by the local workforce.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Ownership is very high here; not one home in the area lacks a motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%, with 48.5% of homes owning two cars and another 31.7% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Swan Bay, 2 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 3 vehicles is next at 20%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 63.9% of people acting as the driver. This explains why no one uses public transport for their commute, and the 16.1% who work from home is well below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
16.1% ▲ +39.4%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
The area has 14.01 transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the New South Wales figure. However, actual usage is low, and the weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average.
5
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
14.01
Higher than 89% 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).
168.1
Higher than 72% 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.
Despite having a relatively high number of stops, accessing them is difficult, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 37 minutes.
37
Higher than 72% 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 Swan Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13720/swan-bay/topic/transport