11.8% ▼ -25.2%
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wollongong · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Wollongong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has surged by 22 percentage points since 2011 in Wollongong, where nearly one in four people now work from their own house. This shift is part of a broader change in how people move, with a notable drop in both public transport use and car ownership since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 11.8% of homes in Wollongong have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own one or two cars, though the proportion of car-free homes has fallen by 4.0 percentage points over the last decade.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wollongong, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and No vehicle (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost half of workers drive to work and 24.4% work from home, a figure well above the Australian average. Public transport use for commuting is low at 1.9%, which is about the same as the New South Wales figure.
24.4% ▲ +964.6%
Higher than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 24.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.9% ▼ -59.3%
Lower than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 1.9%
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.
Wollongong has strong transport infrastructure with 591 stops and 39 routes. With 6.93 stops and 1,675.6 weekly departures per 1,000 people, access to services is much higher than in most areas and well above the state average.
591
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.
6.93
Higher than 89% 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).
1,675.6
Higher than 75% 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).
39
Higher than 75% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wollongong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10092/wollongong/topic/transport