4.1% ▼ -42.7%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wagait Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wagait Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people use public transport to get to work in Wagait Beach than in most similar areas. While nearly every home owns a car, a small number of residents still rely on transit or walking to get around. The area has no local public transport stops or routes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home has a car, with 42.4% owning one and 38.8% owning two. Only 4.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wagait Beach splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Around 4.8% of workers use public transport, which is a little above the national and state figures. Those working from home make up 8.6% of the group, which is well above the Northern Territory average but far below the Australian figure.
8.6% ▲ +92.1%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.8% ▼ -19.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 4.8%
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 the area. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Northern Territory figure of 505.8.
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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wagait Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70276/wagait-beach/topic/transport