6.6% ▼ -21.3%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Muswellbrook · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Muswellbrook
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Muswellbrook than in the rest of the country, with only 7.7% doing so. This reliance on physical workplaces is reflected in a community where most households own multiple cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, though 6.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Muswellbrook splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 67.8% of people as the driver. This explains why only 0.2% of workers use public transport, a figure that is far below the national average of 3.1%.
7.7% ▲ +244.6%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -53.4%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.2%
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.
Muswellbrook has 67 public transport stops across 13 routes, which is among the largest number of services for an area of this size. However, the 142.8 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
67
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.46
Higher than 79% 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).
142.8
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).
13
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Muswellbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12879/muswellbrook/topic/transport