7.4% ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Parkes · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Parkes
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes in Parkes lack a motor vehicle than in most similar areas. While the typical household owns one or two cars, 7.4% of homes have no vehicle at all, a figure that has risen slightly since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here have one (39.2%) or two (37.1%) vehicles. The 7.4% of homes without a car is about the same as the national figure, though it is a little below the New South Wales average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Parkes splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 69.5% of people driving. Very few people use public transport (0.3%) or work from home (7.2%), with the latter being far below the national figure of 21%.
7.2% ▲ +32.5%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -60.4%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 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 Parkes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114024/parkes/topic/transport