5.7% ▼ -35.8%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wingham · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wingham
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 73% of workers in Wingham rely on driving themselves to get to work, highlighting a heavy dependence on cars for daily travel. While the area has a high number of transport stops, very few people actually use public transit to commute. Most homes here own at least one vehicle, with about 37% having two.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, though 5.7% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is much higher than most similar areas, despite being well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wingham splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here, at just 5.4%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Only 0.3% of residents use public transport to get to work.
5.4% ▲ +120.4%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -32.3%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Wingham has 83 public transport stops and 18 routes, which is among the highest for its level. However, the weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure, and 97.8% of services are buses.
83
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
15.38
Higher than 90% 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).
238.6
Higher than 74% 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).
18
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 16 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
16
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
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)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wingham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14350/wingham/topic/transport