5.4% ▼ -36.9%
Higher than 50% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dubbo · Sub-region (SA3)
Transport & Vehicles in Dubbo
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A tiny fraction of the workforce in Dubbo uses public transport to get to work, with only 0.4% doing so. This reliance on private travel is mirrored by the high number of cars per home and very few people working from home compared to the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Dubbo have at least one car, and 37.8% have two. Only 5.4% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average of 9.2% and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Dubbo splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 66.7% of people as the driver. Only 10.6% of residents work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%.
10.6% ▲ +44.3%
Lower than 70% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -23.0%
Lower than 84% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Dubbo has 386 public transport stops, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 373.5, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6. Nearly all of these services are buses.
386
Higher than 63% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.21
Higher than 67% 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).
373.5
Lower than 64% 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).
38
Higher than 68% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Dubbo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/10503/dubbo/topic/transport