7.9% ▲ +22.1%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dorrigo · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Dorrigo
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport to get to work in Dorrigo than in the rest of the country. The area relies heavily on private cars, though a growing number of residents now work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.9% of homes in Dorrigo have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. Most households have one or two cars, with 44.9% owning a single vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Dorrigo, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work, a figure well below the national average. While 11.2% of the workforce now works from home—up 8.7 points since 2011—the majority still rely on driving themselves to work.
11.2% ▲ +353.1%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 11.2%
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: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Dorrigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115053/dorrigo/topic/transport