6.6% ▼ -62.0%
Higher than 62% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Northern Tablelands · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Northern Tablelands
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 30% fewer people use public transport to get to work in Northern Tablelands than they did in 2011. This shift toward private travel is clear, as only 0.3% of workers now use public transit, while 17.5% of the workforce increasingly works from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 36.5% owning one and 35.7% owning two. Only 6.6% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen 11 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Northern Tablelands splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 57.4% of people as the driver. Public transport use is among the lowest for similar areas at just 0.3%, while those working from home rose 12 points since 2011 to reach 17.5%.
17.5% ▲ +192.6%
Higher than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -98.9%
Lower than 96% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 options are very limited, with only 2.67 stops per 1,000 people, which is far below the New South Wales figure. Services are almost entirely buses, with only 93.2 weekly departures per 1,000 people.
212
Lower than 63% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.67
Lower than 86% 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).
93.2
Lower than 92% 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).
20
Lower than 67% 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 Northern Tablelands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10061/northern-tablelands/topic/transport