Wangoom · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wangoom

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

Not a single home in Wangoom is without a motor vehicle, making it a place where cars are essential for daily life. This reliance on driving is clear across the area, as almost every resident depends on a vehicle to get around.

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📍 Wangoom, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households have multiple cars, with 43.8% owning two vehicles and 35.9% owning three. This is much lower than the Victorian and national figures for homes with no car, which both sit around 7%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Wangoom, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 3 vehicles (30%) and 4 or more (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 54.8% of people as the driver and 11.9% as passengers. Working from home is less common here than in the rest of the state, at 16.3%.

16.3%

Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 16.0%
  • 2021: 16.3%

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.

How people get to work

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In Wangoom, Car (driver) is the majority at 61%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with no routes or stops available. This puts Wangoom far below the Victorian average for transport access.

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the nearest transport stop would take 86 minutes on foot, which is among the highest times for areas of this type.

86

Higher 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 Wangoom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22683/wangoom/topic/transport