5.7% ▼ -21.1%
Higher than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Muswellbrook · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Muswellbrook
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 0.2% of workers use public transport in Muswellbrook, making it one of the most car-dependent areas around. Most people here rely on their own vehicles to get around and get to work, with very few residents working from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 37.1% of homes owning two vehicles and 13.8% owning three. Only 5.7% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is lower than the national average and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Muswellbrook 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 66.4% of people commuting as the driver. Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of Australia, at just 9.3%.
9.3% ▲ +142.5%
Lower than 68% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -47.8%
Lower than 81% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 77 public transport stops and 13 routes, actual service levels are very low. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales figure, and almost all available services are buses.
77
Higher than 59% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.71
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).
113.0
Higher than 56% 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).
13
Higher than 61% 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 Muswellbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA15650/muswellbrook/topic/transport