8.9% ▲ +175.0%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gilgandra · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Gilgandra
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More homes in Gilgandra are now without a car, with this figure rising 5.7 percentage points since 2011. Most people here rely on driving to get to work, while very few work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. For those with cars, the most common setup is one vehicle (41.7%) or two vehicles (34.0%) per household.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Gilgandra, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, with only 3.7% doing so—a figure far below the national 21.0%. Most people drive to work (63.2%), while 1.5% use public transport, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
3.7% ▼ -21.1%
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▼ -25.2%
Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Gilgandra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115065/gilgandra/topic/transport