Namoi River · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Namoi River

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

Daily life in Namoi River relies almost entirely on private cars and home-based work. Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle, and a huge 38.7% of the workforce works from home, which is far above the national figure of 21%. These patterns reflect a place where residents are largely independent of external transport services.

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📍 Namoi River, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with a third of homes owning four or more vehicles. No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 9.2%.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Namoi River, the largest group is 4 or more at 41%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and 3 vehicles (29%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common, with 38.7% of people doing so, which is well above the state figure of 31%. For those who do leave for work, 35.5% drive, while no one uses public transport to commute.

38.7%

Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 35.7%
  • 2021: 38.7%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Namoi River, Worked at home is the majority at 52%; Car (driver) is next at 48%.

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 and stops per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figures.

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 Namoi River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12899/namoi-river/topic/transport