6.0% ▼ -43.5%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dubbo · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Dubbo
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer homes without cars and more people working from home define the recent shifts in Dubbo. While the typical household now relies heavily on private vehicles, the number of homes without any motor vehicle fell by 4.6 percentage points since 2011 to reach 6.0%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have at least one car, with 38.8% owning two and 37.8% owning one. Only 6.0% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much lower than the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Dubbo splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Private cars are the primary way to get to work for 70.7% of people, while only 0.4% use public transport. Those working from home rose to 7.2% since 2011, though this remains far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%.
7.2% ▲ +176.5%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -24.8%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 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/ucl/UCL112006/dubbo/topic/transport