6.4% ▼ -18.1%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Quirindi · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Quirindi
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Higher rates of public transport stops than most similar areas mark the transport landscape in Quirindi. While the town has a high number of stops, very few people actually use them to get to work. Most residents rely on their own cars to move around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.4% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. Most households own one or two cars, with 37.6% having two and 34.9% having one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Quirindi splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.7% of workers use public transport, a figure that is a little below the state and national averages. Working from home is also far below the national figure, with only 10.2% of people doing so.
10.2% ▲ +6.6%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▲ +10.6%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
Quirindi has 16.69 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the New South Wales figure. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
56
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.
16.69
Higher than 91% 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).
284.9
Higher than 74% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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.
It takes about 19 minutes to walk to the nearest stop, which is around the middle for similar areas.
19
Higher than 58% 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 Quirindi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13314/quirindi/topic/transport