6.1% ▼ -30.3%
Higher than 60% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hay · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Transport & Vehicles in Hay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport in Hay than in most similar areas, leaving residents heavily reliant on their own cars. While a few homes have no vehicle, the vast majority of the population depends on private transport to get around this large region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 35.1% owning two and 13.4% owning three. Only 6.1% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen by 2.6 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Hay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 63.5% of people, while 11.0% work from home. This is far below the national figure for working from home, and no one in the area commutes using public transport.
11.0% ▲ +32.4%
Lower than 65% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
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, with just one stop and two routes serving the area. This means there are only 4.8 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the New South Wales figure.
1
Lower than 98% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.35
Lower than 96% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
4.8
Lower than 97% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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).
2
Lower than 86% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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 Hay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/109021177/hay/topic/transport