Wombat · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wombat

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

About 73% of workers in Wombat drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on cars. This is a place where every single home has at least one motor vehicle, far below the state and national figures for households without a car.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household here owns a vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most homes have two or more cars, with 34% of households owning two and 14% owning four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.3%
  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Wombat, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 34%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one in the area commutes using public transport, and 21.2% of the workforce works from home. This remote-work rate is about the same as the Australian figure, though it is well below the New South Wales average of 31%.

21.2% ▲ +14.7%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 18.5%
  • 2016: 17.5%
  • 2021: 21.2%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Wombat, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 0.0, which is far below the New South Wales figure.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wombat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14382/wombat/topic/transport