Wangaratta - Benalla · Sub-region (SA3)

Transport & Vehicles in Wangaratta - Benalla

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

Over 63% of people in Wangaratta - Benalla drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars in this region. Most homes have at least one vehicle, and the number of households without a car has fallen to 5% since 2011.

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📍 Wangaratta - Benalla, Sub-region (SA3)

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households here own multiple cars, with 38% having two vehicles and 14.6% owning three. Only 5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.

5.0% ▼ -27.4%

Lower than 57% of sub-region (sa3) areas.

  • 2011: 6.9%
  • 2016: 5.6%
  • 2021: 5.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Wangaratta - Benalla, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.2%. While the number of people working from home rose to 12.5% since 2011, this is still far below the Victorian rate of 25.7%.

12.5% ▲ +68.0%

Lower than 55% of sub-region (sa3) areas.

  • 2011: 7.5%
  • 2016: 6.9%
  • 2021: 12.5%

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

0.2% ▼ -67.8%

Lower than 96% of sub-region (sa3) areas.

  • 2011: 0.6%
  • 2016: 0.5%
  • 2021: 0.2%

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 Wangaratta - Benalla, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

The region has 42 public transport routes and 213 stops, but service is sparse. With 334.9 weekly departures per 1,000 people, frequency is far below the Victorian figure of 1,267.9, and 99.1% of services are buses.

4.40

Lower than 51% of sub-region (sa3) areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

334.9

Lower than 66% of sub-region (sa3) areas.

Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wangaratta - Benalla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/20402/wangaratta-benalla/topic/transport