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Transport & Vehicles in Wollongong

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

Over half of workers in Wollongong drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While most homes own at least one vehicle, about 24.6% of the workforce now works from home, a figure well above the national average.

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📍 Wollongong, Urban Area

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households have one or two cars, though 7.4% of Wollongong homes have no motor vehicle. This is much higher than most similar areas, despite being about the same as the Australian figure.

Motor vehicles per home

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Wollongong splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.

2 vehicles 37.5% 1 vehicle 35.1% 3 vehicles 12.5% 4 or more 7.5% No vehicle 7.4%

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the most common way to get to work at 50.7%. Very few people use public transport at 1.2%, which is a little below the state and national figures.

How people get to work

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In Wollongong, Car (driver) is the majority at 62%; Worked at home is next at 30%.

Car (driver) 50.7% Worked at home 24.6% Car (passenger) 3.0% Walked 1.8% Bus 0.6% Train 0.6% Bicycle 0.4%

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 Wollongong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1036/wollongong/topic/transport