4.6% —
Lower than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Snowy Valleys · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Snowy Valleys
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people rely on public transport in Snowy Valleys than in most similar areas, with only 0.3% of workers using it to get to their jobs. Most households depend heavily on cars, and very few people work from home compared to the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high, with 37% of homes owning two vehicles and 15.8% having three. Only 4.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Snowy Valleys splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 65.2% of people being the driver. Those working from home make up 10.6% of the workforce, which is far below the state figure of 31%.
10.6% —
Lower than 60% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% —
Lower than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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.
Public transport is very limited here, with only 9 stops and 6 routes serving the area. This results in just 6 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.
9
Lower than 63% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.60
Lower than 77% 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).
6.0
Lower than 75% 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).
6
Lower than 52% 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 Snowy Valleys [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17080/snowy-valleys/topic/transport