9.1% ▲ +467.0%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Inverell · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Inverell
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A sharp rise in homes without a car is the most striking change in Inverell, where this figure jumped 7.5 percentage points since 2011. This shift stands out against a backdrop of very low public transport use and few people working from home. Most residents still rely heavily on their own vehicles for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 9.1% of homes now have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. While most households have one or two cars, this lack of vehicle access has increased significantly since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Inverell, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.2% of workers use public transport, which is a little below the national figure. Very few people work from home at 6.2% — far below the New South Wales rate of 31% — while 67.8% of the workforce drive themselves to work.
6.2% ▲ +89.5%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -62.8%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.1%
- 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 Inverell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114015/inverell/topic/transport