6.1% ▼ -31.6%
Higher than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hay · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Hay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport in Hay than in the rest of New South Wales. This is a car-dependent area where almost no one uses transit to get to work, and most households own at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure and has fallen 2.8 percentage points since 2011. Most households are well equipped, with 35.2% owning two vehicles and 13.6% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Hay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Hay commutes by public transport, a figure well below the national average. While 63.8% of workers drive a car, 10.7% work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
10.7% ▲ +42.7%
Lower than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 access is very limited, with only 2 routes and a single stop serving the area. This results in just 4.9 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.
1
Lower than 81% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.35
Lower than 81% 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).
4.9
Lower than 77% 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).
2
Lower than 67% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Hay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA13850/hay/topic/transport