10.8% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pilliga · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pilliga
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A lack of public transport options means Pilliga relies heavily on private cars for getting around. While 10.8% of homes have no motor vehicle—a figure well above the national average—there are no public transport stops or routes serving the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 10.8% of households do not have a motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. For those who do own cars, 38.5% have one vehicle, while 16.9% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Pilliga, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 35%, followed by 2 vehicles (24%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Pilliga uses public transport to get to work, and 17.4% work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%. Most people drive themselves to work, while 11.6% walk.
17.4% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 17.4%
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.
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 there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the New South Wales average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 Pilliga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13217/pilliga/topic/transport