8.9% ▼ -50.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Walgett · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Walgett
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single person who commutes in Walgett relies on a car or their own two feet. With no one using public transport to get to work and very few working from home, daily life here is heavily dependent on private vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.9% of homes in Walgett have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. For those who do have cars, the most common setup is one or two vehicles per household.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Walgett splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (32%) and 2 vehicles (32%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The typical way to get to work is by driving, with 59.1% of workers as drivers and another 4.6% as passengers. Working from home is rare here, at just 10.9%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
10.9% ▲ +24.5%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited to three bus routes and a single stop. While this is more than some similar areas, the 7.7 weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales figure.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.55
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
7.7
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality 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).
3
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Walgett [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14114/walgett/topic/transport