3.7% ▼ -56.0%
Lower than 87% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Eden-Monaro · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Eden-Monaro
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 3.7% of homes in Eden-Monaro lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This heavy reliance on cars is a defining feature of the region, where public transport options are very limited compared to the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 39.1% having two and 15.2% having three. The proportion of homes without a vehicle has fallen from 8.5% in 2011 to 3.7% in 2021, which is much lower than most other areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Eden-Monaro, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 64.9% of people as the driver. Very few people use public transport to commute (0.6%), and while the share of people working from home rose to 12.0% since 2016, this is still far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%.
12.0% —
Lower than 64% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% —
Lower than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.6%
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.
Public transport is sparse here, with only 3.40 stops per 1,000 people and weekly departures that are far below the state average. While there are 79 routes, the 550 total stops are fewer than in about 85% of similar areas.
550
Lower than 85% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.40
Lower than 81% of federal 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).
158.7
Lower than 93% of federal 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).
79
Higher than 79% of federal electorate 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 a transport stop takes much longer here than in most areas, with a typical walk of 23 minutes.
23
Higher than 76% of federal electorate 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).
More for Eden-Monaro
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Eden-Monaro [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED113/eden-monaro/topic/transport