6.5% ▼ -31.6%
Higher than 68% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Parkes · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Parkes
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are the primary way people get around Parkes, where 66.4% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. While most households own at least one vehicle, the area has a very low rate of people working from home compared to the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, and the number of households without a vehicle has fallen to 6.5%. This is a little below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Parkes splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of Australia, with only 10.7% doing so. Public transport use is also very low, with just 0.4% of people using it to commute.
10.7% ▲ +29.6%
Lower than 60% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -57.1%
Lower than 68% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
The area has 61 public transport stops and 17 routes, which is more than many similar areas. However, the 97.1 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.
61
Higher than 57% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.25
Higher than 62% 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).
97.1
Higher than 54% 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).
17
Higher than 66% 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 Parkes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA16200/parkes/topic/transport