6.6% ▼ -25.5%
Higher than 59% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bathurst · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Bathurst
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people are working from home in Bathurst than they were in 2011, as the city shifts its commuting habits. While most residents still rely on cars, 10.6% now work from home, marking a steady rise over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the New South Wales figure. Most households own one or two cars, though the share of homes without a vehicle has fallen by 2.3 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bathurst splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport for their commute, at just 0.3%. Most workers drive, though the number of people working from home rose 7.6 points since 2011 to reach 10.6%, despite being far below the national figure.
10.6% ▲ +256.4%
Higher than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -39.1%
Lower than 76% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bathurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1005/bathurst/topic/transport