7.4% ▼ -36.4%
Higher than 78% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tamworth · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Tamworth
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport to get to work in Tamworth than in most similar areas. While the typical home has one or two cars, the number of households without any vehicle has fallen to 7.4% since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Tamworth have one or two vehicles, with 39% having one and 36.7% having two. The 7.4% of households with no car is much higher than in most areas, though this is about the same as the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tamworth splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 63.4% of the workforce, while only 0.3% use public transport, which is much lower than in most areas. Working from home has risen to 10.8% since 2011, though this remains far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
10.8% ▲ +226.8%
Higher than 69% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -54.9%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 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 Tamworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1032/tamworth/topic/transport