4.6% ▼ -33.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Blayney · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Blayney
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 70% of working residents in Blayney drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Most households own multiple vehicles, which is consistent with the area's very low reliance on public transport for commuting.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private cars are common here, with 36.9% of homes owning two vehicles and 15.4% owning three. Only 4.6% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Blayney splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.3%. This is a little below the national figure of 3.1%, and the proportion of people working from home is far below the Australian average of 21%.
8.2% ▲ +44.0%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -44.9%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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.
Blayney has 15 public transport routes and 14 stops, which is more than about 84% of similar areas. However, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales figure, with buses making up 94.7% of the service.
14
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.06
Higher than 74% 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).
65.5
Higher than 65% 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).
15
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.
Getting to a transit point takes longer here than in most areas, with a typical 42-minute walk to the nearest stop.
42
Higher than 75% 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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Blayney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10409/blayney/topic/transport