4.2% ▼ -37.6%
Lower than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Snowy Mountains · Sub-region (SA3)
Transport & Vehicles in Snowy Mountains
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 81.5 weekly public transport departures per 1,000 people are available in the Snowy Mountains, a figure far below the New South Wales average. This makes the area heavily dependent on private cars for getting around. Most homes have at least one vehicle, and few people use public transit for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private cars are common here, with only 4.2% of homes having no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure. This is a decrease from 2011, and now 37.5% of households own two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Snowy Mountains, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.5%. While working from home rose to 13.4% since 2011, this remains far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
13.4% ▲ +59.1%
Higher than 51% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -10.7%
Lower than 83% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 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.
Public transport is limited to 7 bus routes and 89 stops. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average, and the area has fewer routes and stops than about 85% of similar regions.
89
Lower than 81% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.30
Lower than 53% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
81.5
Lower than 83% of sub-region (sa3) 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).
7
Lower than 86% of sub-region (sa3) 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 Snowy Mountains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/10103/snowy-mountains/topic/transport