6.6% ▼ -33.1%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Parkes · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Parkes
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far lower proportion of people work from home in Parkes compared to the rest of the state. While 31% of New South Wales workers stayed home in 2021, only 8.2% did so here. Most residents rely on cars for their daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Parkes have at least one car, with 37.1% owning two vehicles. About 6.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Parkes splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 68.9% of people as the driver. Very few people use public transport for their commute, at just 0.3%, which is a little below the national figure.
8.2% ▲ +105.1%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -72.5%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Parkes has 17 public transport routes and 55 stops, making it one of the largest for this level. However, the weekly number of departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
55
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.
4.86
Higher than 77% 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).
121.0
Higher than 71% 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).
17
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Parkes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13162/parkes/topic/transport