Yanco · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Yanco

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Almost 69% of working residents in Yanco drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. This is a place where motor vehicles are essential, as very few households get by without one.

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📍 Yanco, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 1.6% of homes in Yanco have no motor vehicle, which is well below the 9.2% seen across New South Wales. Most households own multiple cars, with 36.6% having two and 17.8% owning three.

1.6% ▼ -76.2%

Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.6%
  • 2016: 4.2%
  • 2021: 1.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Yanco splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 18%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far less common here at 6.8% compared to the national figure of 21%. No one uses public transport to get to work, while 5.7% of residents walk.

6.8% ▲ +140.0%

Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.8%
  • 2016: 4.2%
  • 2021: 6.8%

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.

How people get to work

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In Yanco, Car (driver) is the majority at 76%; Car (passenger) is next at 10%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

The area has four public transport routes and two stops, which is more than most similar areas. However, the 24.2 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.

2.69

Higher than 68% 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).

24.2

Higher than 60% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the nearest stop takes about 22 minutes on foot, which is higher than most similar areas.

22

Higher than 60% 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 Yanco [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14478/yanco/topic/transport