4.1% ▼ -24.8%
Lower than 66% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bega Valley · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Bega Valley
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 4.1% of Bega Valley homes have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This heavy reliance on cars is reflected in how people get to work and the limited use of public transport across the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 39.6% of homes owning two vehicles and 13.2% having three. The proportion of homes without a car has fallen to 4.1%, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bega Valley splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 63% of residents. Very few people use public transport to commute (0.3%), and while 12.6% now work from home, this is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
12.6% ▲ +59.9%
Higher than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -54.0%
Lower than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Public transport is exclusively bus-based, with no trains or ferries. While there are 134 stops, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 84.7, which is far below the state figure of 1,313.6.
134
Higher than 65% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.73
Higher than 55% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
84.7
Higher than 52% of council (lga) 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).
8
Higher than 52% of council (lga) 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 Bega Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA10550/bega-valley/topic/transport