Upper Colo · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Upper Colo

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

Not a single home in Upper Colo lacks a motor vehicle, making cars essential for getting around. This total reliance on private transport is matched by a complete absence of public transport options for those heading to work.

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📍 Upper Colo, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household owns at least one vehicle, which is well below the national figure where 7.4% of homes have none. Nearly 29% of homes have two vehicles, and 14.3% own three.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Upper Colo, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (23%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Cars are the main way to get to work for 57.7% of residents, while 15.4% walk. Those working from home make up 19.2% of the workforce, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.

19.2%

Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 12.0%
  • 2021: 19.2%

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 Upper Colo, Car (driver) is the majority at 63%; Worked at home is next at 21%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This means no one can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes, a result that is far below the state average.

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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).

0.0

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).

0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Upper Colo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14035/upper-colo/topic/transport