5.2% ▼ -64.7%
Lower than 55% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lismore · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Lismore
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More public transport stops per person are found in Lismore than in most similar areas. While the area has an extensive network of 618 stops, very few people actually use these services to get to work. Most residents rely heavily on their own cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 74.6% of homes owning one or two vehicles. Only 5.2% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average and has fallen by 9.5 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lismore splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 60.6% of residents, while only 0.4% use public transport, a figure that has fallen 7.2 percentage points since 2011. Working from home rose to 15% by 2021, though this remains far below the state figure of 31%.
15.0% ▲ +703.4%
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -95.2%
Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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.
Lismore has 8.05 stops per 1,000 people and 57 routes, which is well above the New South Wales average. However, these services are infrequently used, as weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure.
618
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.
8.05
Higher than 97% 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).
275.4
Lower than 80% 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).
57
Higher than 86% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lismore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10045/lismore/topic/transport