6.9% ▼ -34.1%
Higher than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wagga Wagga · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Wagga Wagga
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive gap exists between Wagga Wagga and the rest of the state in how people get to work, with far fewer residents working from home. Most locals rely on private transport, though the number of homes without a car has fallen to 6.9% since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 37.7% having two and 36.8% having one. The proportion of homes with no motor vehicle is higher than in most similar areas, though it remains a little below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wagga Wagga splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary choice for 70.3% of workers, while only 0.6% use public transport, a figure that has fallen since 2011. Only 7.4% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
7.4% ▲ +161.6%
Lower than 57% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -84.9%
Lower than 52% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wagga Wagga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1035/wagga-wagga/topic/transport