0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Carcoar · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Carcoar
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A high level of vehicle ownership and a strong trend toward working from home define transport in Carcoar. While the area has more public transport stops than most similar places, the vast majority of residents rely on their own cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Carcoar has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. Nearly half of all households own three or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Carcoar splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (35%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, but 26.8% work from home, a figure well above the national average. No one in the area commutes using public transport.
26.8% ▲ +66.2%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 26.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Carcoar has more public transport stops per person than most similar areas and the state average. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the New South Wales figure.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.38
Higher than 86% 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).
66.4
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).
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.
The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes 5 minutes, which is lower than in most other similar areas.
5
Lower than 68% 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 Carcoar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10807/carcoar/topic/transport