6.6% ▼ -41.2%
Higher than 62% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hornsby · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Hornsby
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 44% of people working in Hornsby do so from home, a figure far above the national average. This shift is part of a broader trend where the area has seen a massive jump in remote work since 2011. While car use remains common, the region is well served by a large network of public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households in Hornsby own at least one vehicle, with 38.3% having one and 36.9% owning two. Only 6.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Hornsby splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is a dominant trend here, with 43.8% of the workforce doing so—far above the 21% national figure. Other common ways to get to work include driving (32.2%) and taking the train (3.1%).
43.8% ▲ +1339.7%
Higher than 94% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 43.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.4% ▼ -20.0%
Higher than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 3.4%
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.
Hornsby has excellent public transport access, with 605 stops and 45 different routes. It has 7.24 stops per 1,000 people, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 5.27.
605
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.
7.24
Higher than 91% 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).
1,295.6
Higher than 62% 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).
45
Higher than 81% 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 Hornsby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10037/hornsby/topic/transport