5.8% ▼ -30.6%
Higher than 58% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Inverell - Tenterfield · Sub-region (SA3)
Transport & Vehicles in Inverell - Tenterfield
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 60% of workers in Inverell - Tenterfield drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on private cars. The region has very few public transport options, with only 5.8% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 35.2% have two. The proportion of households without a vehicle has fallen to 5.8%, which is a little below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Inverell - Tenterfield splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is more common here than in most similar areas, though at 15.0% it remains far below the New South Wales figure. Only 0.3% of people commute by public transport, a rate that has barely changed since 2011.
15.0% ▲ +26.2%
Higher than 59% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -43.0%
Lower than 92% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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.
Public transport is very limited, with only 14 routes and 85 stops. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure, and the only available mode of transport is the bus.
85
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.
2.19
Lower than 84% 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).
17.5
Lower than 95% 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).
14
Lower than 71% 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 Inverell - Tenterfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/11002/inverell-tenterfield/topic/transport