0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wantagong · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wantagong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Wantagong owns a car, marking it as a highly vehicle-dependent area compared to the rest of the state. The area lacks any public transport services, which helps explain why 30.4% of the workforce works from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, a figure well below the 9.2% of New South Wales homes without one. Most households are well-equipped, with 81.8% owning either two or three vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wantagong splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (43%) and 3 vehicles (43%), with 1 vehicle at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 30.4%, which is well above the national figure of 21%. Other than those working at home, the most common way to get to work is driving, while 17.4% of people walk.
30.4% —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 48.1%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Wantagong. This leaves the area with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% 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).
0.0
Lower than 99% 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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 Wantagong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14155/wantagong/topic/transport