5.5% ▼ -37.5%
Higher than 53% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kempsey - Nambucca · Sub-region (SA3)
Transport & Vehicles in Kempsey - Nambucca
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one uses public transport to get to work in Kempsey - Nambucca, with only 0.3% of workers doing so. The region relies heavily on private cars to get around, and very few people work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, and only 5.5% of households have no motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%, and the proportion of carless homes has fallen by 3.3 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Kempsey - Nambucca splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 65.1% of people as the driver. Only 10.7% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21% and the state's 31%.
10.7% ▲ +43.1%
Lower than 69% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -52.2%
Lower than 89% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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.
While the area has 47 routes and 260 stops, the service is infrequent; weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales figure. Almost all available public transport is provided by buses.
260
Lower than 52% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.08
Higher than 64% 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).
115.9
Lower than 79% 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).
47
Higher than 77% 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 Kempsey - Nambucca [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/10802/kempsey-nambucca/topic/transport