5.8% ▼ -35.5%
Lower than 56% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dubbo · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Dubbo
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 70% of workers in Dubbo drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on cars for daily travel. This is a highly mobile area where very few households go without a vehicle and public transport use is minimal.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 5.8% of homes in Dubbo have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. This is down from 9.0% in 2011, with 38.9% of households now owning two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Dubbo splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Just 0.4% of people use public transport to get to work, which is a little below the national figure. While 7.4% of people now work from home—an increase of 4.8 points since 2011—this remains far below the New South Wales rate of 31%.
7.4% ▲ +187.3%
Lower than 57% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -36.6%
Lower than 71% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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.
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 Dubbo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1012/dubbo/topic/transport