7.3% —
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wagga Wagga · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes in Wagga Wagga lack a motor vehicle than in most similar areas, though the typical household still relies heavily on cars. Only 7.3% of homes are without a vehicle, while the vast majority of residents depend on driving to get around the region.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households keep one or two cars, with 38.3% having one and 36.9% having two. This means very few homes have four or more vehicles, at just 5.8%.
7.3% —
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wagga Wagga splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 70.8% of people acting as the driver. Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at only 7.1%, while just 0.6% of workers use a bus.
7.1% —
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% —
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
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.
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/ucl/UCL112019/wagga-wagga/topic/transport