37.0% ▲ +95.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 37.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tamworth · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tamworth
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes lack a motor vehicle in Tamworth than in the rest of the country, with 37% of households having none. This is a striking gap compared to the national figure of 7.4%. While few people work from home, the area has an exceptionally high number of public transport services.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 37% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. For those who do own a car, the most common arrangement is having just one vehicle, at 43.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tamworth, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by No vehicle (35%) and 2 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work, and only 12.7% work from home, which is well below the Australian average of 21%. Most residents drive or catch a lift, while 10.9% walk to their jobs.
12.7% ▲ +154.5%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Tamworth has a huge number of services, with 9,280.4 weekly departures per 1,000 people, far above the state figure of 1,313.6. There are 20 different routes and 12 stops, with buses making up almost all of the service.
12
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
63.49
Higher 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).
9,280.4
Higher 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).
20
Higher than 86% 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.
Walking to the nearest transport stop is very quick here, taking typically only 2 minutes. This is much lower than most similar areas.
2
Lower than 86% 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 Tamworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13762/tamworth/topic/transport