5.9% ▼ -33.9%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wallacia · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Wallacia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 23 percentage point jump in remote work since 2011 defines the modern commute for Wallacia. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around, with only 0.6% using public transport to reach their jobs. This makes the area's transport landscape heavily dependent on private vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here go without a car, with only 5.9% having no motor vehicle, which is much lower than the national figure of 7.4%. The most common setup is two vehicles per home, seen in 35.5% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wallacia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (31%), with 4 or more at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common for 25.1% of the workforce, a figure well above the Australian average. In contrast, only 0.6% of people use public transport to get to work, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.7%.
25.1% ▲ +918.3%
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 25.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -22.3%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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).
More for Wallacia
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wallacia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115150/wallacia/topic/transport