Upsalls Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Upsalls Creek

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

About 62.5% of working residents in Upsalls Creek drive themselves to work. This is a car-dependent area where every single home has at least one motor vehicle. Public transport is virtually non-existent, meaning almost everyone relies on private cars to get around.

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📍 Upsalls Creek, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 60.4% of homes owning either two or three vehicles. This explains why no homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales and national rates.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Upsalls Creek splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (33%), with 1 vehicle at 26%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, while 10.7% of people work from home. This number is far below the national figure and the state average, and no one in the area uses public transport to commute.

10.7%

Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 6.4%
  • 2021: 10.7%

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 Upsalls Creek, Car (driver) is the majority at 85%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. This puts Upsalls Creek far below the state average for transit access, with zero 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the nearest transport stop is a significant challenge. It takes a typical resident 68 minutes to walk to the nearest stop, which is much higher than in most similar areas.

68

Higher than 90% 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 Upsalls Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14067/upsalls-creek/topic/transport