5.9% ▼ -31.1%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Forbes · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Forbes
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 0.4% of workers in Forbes use public transport to get to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. While the town has more transport stops than most similar areas, very few people actually use them for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Forbes have at least one car, with 37.4% owning two and 12.8% owning three. Only 5.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Forbes splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is almost entirely car-based, as 69.3% of people drive. This is reflected in the work-from-home rate of 8.0%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
8.0% ▲ +67.4%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -45.4%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
Forbes has 50 public transport stops and 9 routes, meaning it has more stops per 1,000 people than the state average. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the New South Wales figure.
50
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.13
Higher than 82% 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).
136.1
Higher than 72% 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).
9
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.
Walking to the nearest stop takes an average of 78 minutes, which is among the highest times for this level of area.
78
Higher than 95% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Forbes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11539/forbes/topic/transport