6.6% ▼ -36.7%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
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Transport & Vehicles in Forbes
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Just 0.5% of workers in Forbes use public transport to get to their jobs. This heavy reliance on cars is a key feature of the area, where most people drive themselves to work and very few operate from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 35.9% owning two and 11% owning three. While 6.6% of households have no motor vehicle, this is a little below the New South Wales figure and has fallen by 3.8 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Forbes splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get around, with 70.8% of people commuting as the driver. Very few people work from home at 6.2%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
6.2% ▲ +119.7%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▲ +18.3%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.1%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Forbes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114010/forbes/topic/transport