7.2% ▼ -23.7%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wangaratta · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wangaratta
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car travel remains the primary way to get around Wangaratta, with 65.9% of workers driving themselves to work. While the area has a high number of transport stops, very few people actually use public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia. Most households own one or two cars, with 40.3% having one and 37.2% having two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wangaratta splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of the country, at only 8.0%. This is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and only 0.2% of people use public transport to get to work.
8.0% ▲ +171.1%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -71.6%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Wangaratta has 123 public transport stops and 37 routes, which is among the largest for an area of this size. Despite having 6.4 stops per 1,000 people, the number of weekly departures is far below the Victorian average.
123
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.40
Higher than 83% 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).
585.6
Higher than 80% 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).
37
Higher than 87% 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.
Walking to the nearest transport stop is very quick, with a typical time of just one minute. This is much lower than in most other similar areas.
1
Lower than 99% 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 Wangaratta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22680/wangaratta/topic/transport