6.7% ▼ -26.1%
Higher than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wallsend · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Wallsend
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Much higher public transport access than most similar areas defines Wallsend, though cars remain the primary way to get around. While 579 stops serve the area, very few people actually use public transit for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 38.7% owning two vehicles. Only 6.7% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen by 2.4 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wallsend splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 19.3% since 2011, yet this is still far below the New South Wales figure of 31%. Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 1.2%.
19.3% ▲ +676.0%
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -48.3%
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
Wallsend has a high level of service, with 6.65 stops and 1,795.9 weekly departures per 1,000 people, both well above the state figures. This network consists of 33 routes, almost entirely served by buses.
579
Higher than 92% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.65
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,795.9
Higher than 79% of state electorate 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).
33
Higher than 65% of state electorate 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wallsend [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10089/wallsend/topic/transport