6.2% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Macquarie Fields · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Macquarie Fields
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 26 percentage point jump in working from home since 2011 marks a major shift in how Macquarie Fields gets to work. While the area remains heavily reliant on cars, nearly 29% of the workforce now operates from home, which is well above the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 38.8% owning two vehicles. Only 6.2% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average and has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Macquarie Fields splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here at 28.8%, though driving remains the most typical choice for 42.3% of workers. Public transport use for commuting rose to 4.3% since 2011, which is a little above the state and national figures.
28.8% ▲ +801.0%
Higher than 82% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 28.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.3% ▲ +161.3%
Higher than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 4.3%
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.
Macquarie Fields has a large network of 547 public transport stops and 34 routes, mostly serving buses. Despite this, weekly departures per 1,000 people are a little below the New South Wales figure.
547
Higher than 90% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.87
Higher than 56% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,125.7
Higher than 55% of state electorate 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).
34
Higher than 67% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Macquarie Fields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10048/macquarie-fields/topic/transport