13.3% ▲ +61.9%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bourke · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Bourke
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Getting around Bourke relies almost entirely on private cars or walking, with very few people working from home. A striking 13.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has risen by 5.1 points since 2011 and is well above the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own one or two cars, but 13.3% of homes lack a vehicle, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This proportion is well above the 9.2% seen across New South Wales.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bourke, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and No vehicle (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here at just 3.5%, a figure far below the national average of 21%. While 57% of people drive to work and 15.3% walk, virtually no one uses public transport to get to their job.
3.5% ▼ -23.4%
Lower than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Bourke [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115024/bourke/topic/transport