4.3% ▼ -39.9%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Walcha · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Walcha
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A quarter of the workforce in Walcha now work from home, a figure that is well above the national average. This shift highlights a reliance on private transport and digital connectivity in the area. Most households maintain multiple vehicles to get around the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes in Walcha lack a car, with only 4.3% having no vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure. Instead, 38.6% of households own two vehicles and 25.7% have three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Walcha, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 51.3% of residents, while 24.9% work from home. Only 0.4% use public transport, which is a little below the state and national figures.
24.9% ▲ +18.6%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 24.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▲ —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
Public transport is limited to a single bus stop and six routes. While these numbers are larger than in many similar areas, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.40
Higher than 59% 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).
7.3
Higher than 58% 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).
6
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Walcha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14111/walcha/topic/transport