6.6% ▼ -28.0%
Higher than 59% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Muswellbrook · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Muswellbrook
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people rely on public transport and more are working from home in Muswellbrook than in 2011. The area is heavily dependent on private cars, with the vast majority of workers driving themselves to their jobs. Only 6.6% of homes are without a motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have one or two cars, while 12.3% own three. The number of homes without any vehicle has fallen by 2.6 percentage points since 2011 to reach 6.6%, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Muswellbrook splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to travel, with 67.8% of workers as the sole driver. Only 0.2% use public transport, a figure that has fallen since 2011 and is much lower than most areas. While 7.7% of people now work from home, this remains far below the national figure of 21.0%.
7.7% ▲ +162.4%
Lower than 55% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -90.6%
Lower than 91% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Muswellbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1023/muswellbrook/topic/transport