0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Upper Manilla · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Upper Manilla
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Upper Manilla, where not a single home lacks a motor vehicle. While public transport options exist, the area is defined by a heavy reliance on driving or working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in Upper Manilla has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Many households hold multiple cars, with 38.9% having two vehicles and 19.4% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Upper Manilla, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common for 28.6% of residents, a figure well above the Australian average. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, with most people driving themselves.
28.6% ▼ -35.8%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.5%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 28.6%
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.
Upper Manilla has 19.05 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the New South Wales figure. However, there are only two bus routes and very few weekly departures compared to the state average.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
19.05
Higher than 92% 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).
114.3
Higher than 70% 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.
Accessing transport is difficult for locals, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 65 minutes. This is much higher than most other similar areas.
65
Higher than 88% 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 Upper Manilla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14055/upper-manilla/topic/transport