5.9% ▼ -27.7%
Higher than 62% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tweed · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Tweed
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people are working from home in Tweed than they were in 2011, where the rate rose by 8.7 percentage points to 14.5%. Most residents rely heavily on private cars to get around, with only 0.5% of the workforce using public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private cars are common here, as 39.3% of homes have one vehicle and 37.2% have two. Only 5.9% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is higher than most areas but has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tweed splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to travel, with 62.2% of people commuting as the driver. This helps explain why public transport use is so low at 0.5%, which is a little below the state and national figures.
14.5% ▲ +151.8%
Higher than 63% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -58.0%
Lower than 65% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Tweed has 467 public transport stops and 34 routes—more than about 80% of similar areas—the service is exclusively buses. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
467
Higher than 83% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.80
Higher 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).
507.6
Higher than 72% 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).
34
Higher than 80% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to a stop can be difficult in this area, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 86 minutes, which is among the highest times for this level of area.
86
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
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)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Tweed [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17550/tweed/topic/transport