4.9% ▼ -37.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mullumbimby · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mullumbimby
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport in Mullumbimby compared to the rest of the state, with no one commuting by it. Most residents rely on private cars, though more than one in five people work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 40% of homes have one vehicle and 37.1% have two. Only 4.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mullumbimby splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 50.8% of residents. About 22.6% work from home, which is a little above the national figure of 21.0%.
22.6% ▲ +115.3%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 22.6%
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: 0.7%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Buses are the only form of public transport here, but the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure. While there are 12 stops and 10 routes, this is still far below the New South Wales average for access.
12
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.87
Higher than 69% 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).
88.5
Higher than 67% 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).
10
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.
The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 14 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this size.
14
Higher than 51% 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 Mullumbimby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12839/mullumbimby/topic/transport