3.6% ▲ +75.8%
Lower than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hawkesbury · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Hawkesbury
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people live without a car in Hawkesbury than in the rest of the country. Only 3.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure. This high reliance on cars is mirrored in the way people get to work and the limited use of public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Hawkesbury have multiple cars, with 36.7% owning two and 17.4% owning four or more. Very few households are without a vehicle, though this figure rose slightly to 3.6% since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hawkesbury, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 4 or more (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost half of all workers drive themselves to work, while 26.3% work from home, a figure that rose 19 points since 2011. Very few people use public transport to commute, at just 0.7%, which is much lower than most other areas.
26.3% ▲ +254.5%
Higher than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 26.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -80.9%
Lower than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
While Hawkesbury has among the largest number of stops at 606, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure. The bus is the main option here, making up 93.2% of all public transport use.
606
Higher than 93% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.77
Higher than 95% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
546.4
Lower than 68% of state electorate 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).
22
Lower than 62% of state electorate 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Hawkesbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10033/hawkesbury/topic/transport