Quirindi · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Quirindi

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

Working from home has risen for 4.3% more people in Quirindi since 2011. Most residents still rely on cars to get around, though about 7.8% of homes have no motor vehicle. This means more households without cars than in most similar areas.

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📍 Quirindi, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households have one or two vehicles, with 40.3% owning one and 35.6% owning two. The 7.8% of homes without a car is a figure that has barely changed since 2011.

7.8% ▼ -7.3%

Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.4%
  • 2016: 2.5%
  • 2021: 7.8%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Quirindi splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 66% of people, while only 1% use public transport. Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, where the national figure is 21%.

7.1% ▲ +150.9%

Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.8%
  • 2016: 4.9%
  • 2021: 7.1%

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

1.0% ▲ +144.3%

Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.4%
  • 2016: 0.6%
  • 2021: 1.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Quirindi, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 8%.

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 Quirindi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115122/quirindi/topic/transport