Wangaratta · Urban Area

Transport & Vehicles in Wangaratta

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

Driving is the primary way to get around Wangaratta, with 66% of workers commuting by car. While most households rely on vehicles, the number of homes without a car has fallen to 7% since 2011. Public transport is rarely used for work, and far fewer people work from home compared to the state average.

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📍 Wangaratta, Urban Area

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is similar to the national figure. Most households own one or two cars, with 39.5% having one and 37.6% having two.

7.0% ▼ -28.7%

Higher than 70% of urban area areas.

  • 2011: 9.8%
  • 2016: 7.5%
  • 2021: 7.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Wangaratta splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Public transport use for work is among the lowest in the region at just 0.2%. Those working from home rose to 8.1% since 2011, though this remains far below the 25.7% seen across Victoria.

8.1% ▲ +285.4%

Lower than 52% of urban area areas.

  • 2011: 2.1%
  • 2016: 3.0%
  • 2021: 8.1%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.2% ▼ -84.9%

Lower than 94% of urban area areas.

  • 2011: 1.2%
  • 2016: 0.4%
  • 2021: 0.2%

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.

How people get to work

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In Wangaratta, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 9%.

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 Wangaratta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2019/wangaratta/topic/transport