22.3% ▼ -20.6%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brewarrina · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Brewarrina
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of workers in Brewarrina drive to get to their jobs. While most people rely on cars, 22.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure of 7.4%. This reliance on private transport is common in the area, though very few people work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 22.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the New South Wales rate of 9.2%. For those who do have cars, 41.6% of households own just one vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Brewarrina, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by No vehicle (22%) and 2 vehicles (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is mostly done by car, with 51.7% of people driving. Very few people work from home at 8.4%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and no one uses public transport to commute.
8.4% ▲ +4.6%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 limited to buses, with only one stop and four routes serving the area. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 10.7, which is far below the state figure of 1,313.6.
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 62% 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).
10.7
Higher than 58% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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.
Walking to the nearest transport stop takes about 67 minutes on average, which is much higher than in most other areas.
67
Higher than 89% 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 Brewarrina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10560/brewarrina/topic/transport