6.1% ▼ -26.9%
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tweed · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Tweed
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport in Tweed compared to the state average, with a heavy reliance on private cars. Only 0.5% of workers use public transit to get to their jobs. This reliance on cars is mirrored in the low number of transport stops and departures available across the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Tweed have one or two cars, and only 6.1% of households have no motor vehicle. This is a little below the national figure of 7.4%, and the proportion of car-less homes has fallen by 2.2 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tweed splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The vast majority of workers drive, with 62.2% as the driver and 4% as a passenger. While 14.5% now work from home—an increase of 9.2 percentage points since 2011—this is still far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
14.5% ▲ +174.9%
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -59.7%
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 limited to buses, and the area has far fewer weekly departures per 1,000 people (579.9) than the state average of 1,313.6. There are 323 stops in total, but this provides only 3.98 stops per 1,000 people, which is well below the state level.
323
Higher than 67% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.98
Lower than 63% 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).
579.9
Lower than 67% 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).
27
Higher than 51% 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 Tweed [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10084/tweed/topic/transport