Narromine · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Narromine

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

More people in Narromine rely on cars for travel than in most similar areas. While a few homes still get by without a vehicle, the vast majority of the community depends on private transport for their daily needs.

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📍 Narromine, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, with 40.1% owning one and 35.3% owning two. Only 6.5% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen by 5.1 points since 2011.

6.5% ▼ -43.9%

Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 11.5%
  • 2016: 5.8%
  • 2021: 6.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Narromine splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 70.3% of residents. Very few people use public transport, at just 0.6%, and only 5.9% work from home, which is far below the national figure.

5.9% ▲ +119.0%

Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.7%
  • 2016: 7.6%
  • 2021: 5.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.6% ▼ -91.3%

Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 7.1%
  • 2016: 0.6%
  • 2021: 0.6%

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.

How people get to work

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In Narromine, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 7%.

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 Narromine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115111/narromine/topic/transport