5.5% ▼ -43.9%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
West Wyalong · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in West Wyalong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far lower share of people work from home in West Wyalong compared to the rest of the country, with only 5.9% doing so. While car travel is the main way to get around, a growing number of residents use public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in West Wyalong have at least one car, and 37.8% own two. Only 5.5% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →West Wyalong splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is among the highest for similar areas at 6.6%, which is well above the national figure of 3.1%. This contrasts with working from home, which at 5.9% is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
5.9% ▲ +195.9%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.6% ▲ +836.6%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 6.6%
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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in West Wyalong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115158/west-wyalong/topic/transport