4.8% ▼ -37.6%
Lower than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Clarence Valley · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Clarence Valley
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 65% of workers in Clarence Valley drive themselves to work, reflecting a strong reliance on cars for daily travel. While the area has a fair number of public transport stops, very few people actually use them for commuting. This makes the region much more car-dependent than the state or national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very common here, with 37.9% of homes having one vehicle and 37.8% having two. Only 4.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Clarence Valley splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common than the national figure, with only 10.6% of people doing so. Public transport use for commuting is also very low at 0.3%, which is a little below both the state and national levels.
10.6% ▲ +59.3%
Lower than 60% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -38.8%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 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.
Clarence Valley has 257 public transport stops and 43 routes, which is more than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure, and 98.8% of these services are buses.
257
Higher than 74% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.75
Higher than 69% 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).
237.6
Higher than 62% 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).
43
Higher than 86% 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 Clarence Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA11730/clarence-valley/topic/transport