11.0% ▼ -31.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tweed Heads · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tweed Heads
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 11% of homes in Tweed Heads have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure. While public transport infrastructure is extensive, very few people use it to get to work, and far fewer work from home than in other parts of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The 11% of homes without a car is among the highest for similar areas. Most households have at least one vehicle, with 49.5% owning one and 29.6% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tweed Heads, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 50%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and No vehicle (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.8% of workers use public transport to commute, which is a little below the national figure. Similarly, 13.4% work from home, a result that is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
13.4% ▲ +172.6%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -69.8%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
Tweed Heads has one of the largest networks of public transport stops and routes for its level. Despite having 31 stops, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is well below the state figure.
31
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.38
Higher than 71% 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).
834.2
Higher than 85% 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).
16
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.
It takes a typical resident about 13 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for its level.
13
Higher than 50% 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 Tweed Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14002/tweed-heads/topic/transport