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.
Illawarra · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Illawarra
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Transport habits in Illawarra have shifted over the last decade, with a strong reliance on private cars remaining the norm. Every single home in the area now has at least one motor vehicle. This is far below the national figure, where about 7% of households have no vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 42.9% of homes owning two vehicles and 39.3% owning three. Not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Illawarra splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (32%), with 1 vehicle at 24%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 75.6% of workers drive, 11.1% use public transport, which is well above the Victoria and Australia figures. Very few people work from home at 6.7%, a figure far below the national average of 21%.
6.7% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
11.1% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 11.1%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area, which is far below the state average of 4.4 stops per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the nearest transport stop is a challenge here, as the typical walk takes 75 minutes, one of the highest times among similar areas.
75
Higher than 94% 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 Illawarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21227/illawarra/topic/transport