5.1% ▼ -88.4%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 44.5%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Swansea · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Swansea
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Swansea has a car, making it a heavily vehicle-dependent place to live. While the area has a huge number of bus stops, very few people actually use public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 5.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen sharply by 39 points since 2011. Most households now own at least one car, with 38% having two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Swansea splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen to 19.6%, though this remains far below the New South Wales figure of 31%. Only 0.5% of people use public transport to commute, which is much lower than most areas.
19.6% ▲ +337.5%
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -97.9%
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
Swansea has 587 public transport stops, among the largest number for its area type, and 7.92 stops per 1,000 people. However, weekly departures are well below the state figure, and all available services are buses.
587
Higher than 92% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.92
Higher than 96% 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).
902.0
Lower than 54% 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).
16
Lower than 76% 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 Swansea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10079/swansea/topic/transport