5.3% ▼ -30.5%
Higher than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
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Transport & Vehicles in Forbes
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More public transport stops per person than most similar areas defines Forbes, though most residents still rely heavily on their own cars. Only 5.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high, with 37% of homes having two vehicles and 14.4% having three. Very few households get by without a car, and this figure has fallen from 7.6% in 2011 to 5.3% today.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Forbes splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 66.7% of people as the driver. Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of the state, at 10.9%, while only 0.5% of workers use public transport.
10.9% ▲ +14.0%
Lower than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -40.7%
Lower than 66% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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.
While there are 51 stops and 11 routes across the area, the number of weekly departures is far below the New South Wales figure. All available public transport is provided by buses.
51
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.47
Higher than 77% 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).
119.8
Higher than 57% 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).
11
Higher than 58% 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 Forbes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA12900/forbes/topic/transport