2.4% ▼ -76.0%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Adelong · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Adelong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people in Adelong rely on their own cars than in most similar areas. While public transport options are better than in many small towns, the typical resident here is far less likely to work from home than the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households go without a car here, with only 2.4% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Adelong, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Reliance on cars is high, as 69.4% of workers drive themselves. Only 6.7% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
6.7% ▲ +233.5%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▲ —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
Adelong has five public transport routes, which is more than about 88% of similar areas. However, weekly departures are far below the state average, with only buses serving the area.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.07
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
17.1
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality 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).
5
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 11 minutes, which is around the middle for its level.
11
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
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)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
More for Adelong
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Adelong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10018/adelong/topic/transport