Hay · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Hay

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Zero people use public transport to get to work in Hay, reflecting a complete reliance on private travel. This town operates without any public transport routes or stops, making the car the essential choice for almost everyone. Most homes here keep one or two vehicles to get around.

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📍 Hay, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 6.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. While most households rely on one or two cars, 8.1% of homes here have four or more vehicles.

6.7% ▼ -27.7%

Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 9.3%
  • 2016: 7.8%
  • 2021: 6.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Hay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 64.5% of residents. Very few people work from home at 7.7%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.

7.7% ▲ +56.4%

Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.9%
  • 2016: 4.9%
  • 2021: 7.7%

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: 0.9%
  • 2016: 0.4%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Hay, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Walked is next at 10%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means the number of weekly departures is zero, which is far below the New South Wales figure.

0.00

Lower than 99% 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).

0.0

Lower than 99% 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Hay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11881/hay/topic/transport