5.5% ▼ -58.6%
Higher than 50% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Orange · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Orange
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A sharp drop in public transport use since 2011 defines the way people move around Orange. While the city has a large number of transport stops, very few people use them to get to work. Most residents rely on their own cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high, with 38.5% of homes owning two vehicles and 21.8% owning three or more. Only 5.5% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average and has fallen 7.8 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Orange splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to travel, with 66.7% of workers being the driver. Public transport use for commuting has crashed from 23.5% in 2011 to just 0.4% in 2021, while those working from home rose to 11.5%, though this remains far below the state figure.
11.5% ▲ +296.6%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -98.3%
Lower than 94% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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.
Orange has 468 public transport stops and 62 routes, which is more than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 317.6, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.
468
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.78
Higher than 74% 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).
317.6
Lower than 78% 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).
62
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 Orange [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10063/orange/topic/transport