Wilberforce · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Wilberforce

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

Over half of working residents in Wilberforce drive themselves to work. This reliance on cars is reflected in the fact that every single home in the area now has at least one motor vehicle.

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📍 Wilberforce, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No home in Wilberforce is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 9.2%. Most households own multiple cars, with 41.6% having two and 22.5% having three.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.8%
  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Wilberforce, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 1 vehicle (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home has jumped 22 points since 2011 to reach 24.3%, which is well above the national figure. Very few people use public transport, with only 0.3% of workers taking the train or bus.

24.3% ▲ +905.4%

Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 2016: 7.2%
  • 2021: 24.3%

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

0.3% ▼ -58.7%

Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.7%
  • 2016: 2.6%
  • 2021: 0.3%

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.

How people get to work

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In Wilberforce, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Worked at home is next at 31%.

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 Wilberforce [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115159/wilberforce/topic/transport