Taylors Beach · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Taylors Beach

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

Among the highest for its kind in terms of transit access, Taylors Beach is a car-dependent area where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. While public transport infrastructure is surprisingly plentiful for a small place, almost no one uses it to get to work.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in Taylors Beach has a motor vehicle, which is well below the 9.2% of New South Wales homes without one. Most families have one or two cars, with 38.2% owning one and 34.5% owning two.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 13.2%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Taylors Beach splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (45%) and 2 vehicles (40%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here commutes using public transport, and the 15.3% of people working from home is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%. Most of the workforce relies on driving, with 45.8% as the main driver.

15.3% ▲ +22.0%

Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 12.5%
  • 2016: 8.0%
  • 2021: 15.3%

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.

How people get to work

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In Taylors Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Worked at home is next at 23%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport access is far above the state average, with 61.54 stops per 1,000 people and 2,884.6 weekly departures. There are 8 stops across 3 routes, all of which are bus services.

61.54

Higher 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).

2,884.6

Higher than 96% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It is a short 4-minute walk for the typical resident to reach the nearest stop. However, the area is remote, with a drive time to the city of 131 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

4

Lower than 71% 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.

131

Higher than 86% 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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Taylors Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13792/taylors-beach/topic/transport