6.8% ▼ -25.8%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gunnedah · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Gunnedah
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes in Gunnedah lack a motor vehicle than in most similar areas. While cars remain the main way to get around, the town has seen a rise in people using public transport and working from home over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households own one or two cars, and the number of homes without a vehicle has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gunnedah splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 6.1% of people doing so. Most residents drive themselves to work, though the 2.9% who use public transport is among the highest for areas of this size.
6.1% ▲ +166.8%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.9% ▲ +790.6%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 2.9%
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 Gunnedah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114013/gunnedah/topic/transport