5.8% ▼ -35.8%
Higher than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nambucca Valley · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Nambucca Valley
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far lower number of people use public transport to get to work in Nambucca Valley compared to the state average. Only 0.2% of workers use these services, making the area heavily reliant on private cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 34.7% have two. Only 5.8% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Nambucca Valley, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way people get to work, with 64.2% as the driver. Working from home has risen to 12.4% since 2011, though this is still far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%.
12.4% ▲ +52.1%
Higher than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -71.7%
Lower than 78% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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.
Buses make up almost all of the local public transport at 97.2%. While there are 68 stops and 28 routes, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
68
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.33
Higher than 51% 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).
123.6
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).
28
Higher than 76% 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 Nambucca Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA15700/nambucca-valley/topic/transport