0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rothbury · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Rothbury
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on cars has remained absolute in Rothbury, where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. This is a remote area where the lack of public transport means almost everyone must drive or walk to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every household here owns a car, a figure well below the New South Wales and national rates for homes without vehicles. Most homes are well-equipped, with 41.7% owning three vehicles and 25% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Rothbury splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (33%) and 2 vehicles (30%), with 4 or more at 20%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one commutes by public transport, which is well below the national figure. Instead, 41.9% of workers drive and 22.6% work from home, which is a little above the Australian average.
22.6% ▲ +29.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 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 serving the area. This means service levels are far below the New South Wales average, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting into the city is a long trip, taking 119 minutes. Access is limited, as the walk to the nearest transport stop takes 73 minutes, among the highest times for similar areas.
73
Higher than 93% 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.
119
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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 Rothbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13435/rothbury/topic/transport