9.2% ▼ -15.0%
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
New South Wales · State / Territory
Transport & Vehicles in New South Wales
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A staggering 31% of workers in New South Wales now work from home, a figure well above the national average. This shift is part of a broader trend where residential and professional lives are blending, though car travel remains the most common way to get to a workplace.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 9.2% of New South Wales homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little above the Australian figure and much higher than most similar areas. This is a slight drop from 2011, when 10.8% of households lived without a car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →New South Wales splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged 26 points since 2011, while the share of people using public transport to get to work fell sharply from 10.1% to 2.7%. Driving is still the most common choice, with 43.1% of workers commuting as a driver.
31.0% ▲ +579.3%
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.7% ▼ -73.4%
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 2.7%
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.
New South Wales has the most public transport routes and stops in the country, with 1,481 routes and 42,519 stops. Buses make up the vast majority of these services at 95.7%, and the state has more stops and departures per person than most other similar areas.
42,519
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.27
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,313.6
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).
1,481
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 New South Wales [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/1/new-south-wales/topic/transport