5.4% ▼ -34.5%
Higher than 55% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tenterfield · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Tenterfield
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of working residents in Tenterfield drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on private cars. While most homes have at least one vehicle, public transport use remains very low. This reflects a region where personal transport is essential for daily life.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 38.5% of homes having one vehicle and 34.2% having two. Only 5.4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2% and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tenterfield splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen to 18.2% since 2011, though this is still a little below the national figure of 21.0%. Very few people use public transport to get to work, with only 0.7% doing so, which is a little below the state and national averages.
18.2% ▲ +41.1%
Higher than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -33.0%
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 options are limited, with only 8 stops and 4 routes serving the area. This results in just 1.17 stops per 1,000 people, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 5.27.
8
Lower than 64% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.17
Lower than 70% 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).
8.1
Lower than 71% 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).
4
Lower than 57% 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 Tenterfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17400/tenterfield/topic/transport