6.1% ▼ -30.9%
Higher than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Goulburn Mulwaree · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Goulburn Mulwaree
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer homes without a car is the biggest change for Goulburn Mulwaree since 2011, with the figure falling from 8.9% to 6.1%. This region relies heavily on private cars, with the vast majority of people driving to work and very few using public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here have at least one car, and 35.4% own two. Only 6.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Goulburn Mulwaree splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of Australia, at just 9.0%. Most people rely on cars, while only 0.3% of the workforce uses public transport, a figure that has barely changed since 2011.
9.0% ▲ +121.1%
Lower than 70% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -31.6%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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.
There are 96 public transport stops and 52 routes across the area, but the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure. Buses make up 90.9% of the available services.
96
Higher than 61% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.00
Lower than 53% 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).
81.2
Higher than 51% 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).
52
Higher than 86% of council (lga) 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 the city takes a long time here, with a drive time of 143 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
143
Higher than 89% of council (lga) areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Goulburn Mulwaree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA13310/goulburn-mulwaree/topic/transport