7.8% —
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wollongong · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Wollongong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge shift in how people get around has hit Wollongong, with working from home jumping by 21 percentage points since 2016. While many residents still rely on cars, the city has seen a significant rise in flexible work and a small but notable number of car-free households.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Wollongong have one or two cars, though 7.8% of households have no motor vehicle at all. This is much higher than most similar areas, despite a slight dip from 8.7% in 2016.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wollongong splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is now common for 24.1% of the workforce, which is well above the national figure. Meanwhile, public transport use for commuting has dropped to 1.3%, leaving the car as the primary choice for over half of the workers.
24.1% —
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% —
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Wollongong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL102005/wollongong/topic/transport