10.8% ▼ -23.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Taree · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Taree
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Taree than in the rest of the country. While the area has a high number of public transport stops, very few residents use them for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 10.8% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and well above the national figure of 7.4%. Most households rely on one or two cars, with 45.2% owning just one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Taree, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and No vehicle (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 5% of residents work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%. The vast majority of the workforce relies on cars, with 69.7% driving themselves to work.
5.0% ▲ +53.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -19.8%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
Taree has 79 public transport stops and 46 routes, making it one of the largest for these counts at this level. However, there are far fewer weekly departures per 1,000 people than the state average.
79
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.73
Higher than 76% 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).
122.6
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).
46
Higher than 88% 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.
The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 12 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
12
Lower than 51% 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 Taree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13779/taree/topic/transport