2474, NSW · Postcode

Transport & Vehicles in 2474, NSW

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Reliance on private cars is a defining feature of daily life in postcode 2474, where only 3.9% of homes have no motor vehicle. This low rate of car-free households is well below the national figure, reflecting a landscape where most people depend on their own transport to get around.

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📍 2474, NSW, Postcode

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes here have one or two cars, with 39.5% owning one and 36.7% owning two. The proportion of households without a vehicle has fallen to 3.9%, which is well below both the state and national figures.

3.9% ▼ -41.5%

Higher than 51% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 6.7%
  • 2016: 4.9%
  • 2021: 3.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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2474, NSW splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the dominant way to travel, with 58.8% of workers commuting as a driver. Very few people use public transport to get to work (0.1%), while 16.9% work from home, a figure that is far below the New South Wales average.

16.9% ▲ +29.5%

Higher than 53% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 13.1%
  • 2016: 11.8%
  • 2021: 16.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.1% ▼ -56.3%

Lower than 68% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 0.3%
  • 2016: 0.6%
  • 2021: 0.1%

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.

How people get to work

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In 2474, NSW, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Worked at home is next at 20%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

While the area has a high number of stops relative to the population—with 9.4 stops per 1,000 people—the number of weekly departures is far below the state average. The network is almost entirely reliant on buses, which make up 98.7% of services.

9.40

Higher than 88% of postcode areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

105.1

Lower than 54% of postcode 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in 2474, NSW [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA2474/2474-nsw/topic/transport