2.5% ▼ -29.4%
Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Upper Lachlan Shire · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Upper Lachlan Shire
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of workers in Upper Lachlan Shire drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. Very few homes get by without a vehicle, and public transport is rarely used for the daily commute. This creates a landscape where private transport is the primary way people move around the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own multiple cars, with 39.2% having two vehicles and 14% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Upper Lachlan Shire, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Just 0.3% of people use public transport to get to work, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. Meanwhile, working from home has risen to 21.3%, which is about the same as the national average.
21.3% ▲ +29.4%
Higher than 83% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -36.3%
Lower than 76% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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 access is limited, with only 2.11 stops per 1,000 people, far below the New South Wales figure of 5.27. While there are 21 routes, weekly departures are far below the state average.
18
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.11
Lower 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).
31.7
Lower than 56% 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).
21
Higher than 71% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Upper Lachlan Shire [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17640/upper-lachlan-shire/topic/transport