Wilton · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Wilton

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

Working from home has surged by 27 percentage points since 2011 in Wilton. This shift comes as the area becomes almost entirely dependent on cars, with only 1% of homes now without a motor vehicle.

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📍 Wilton, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home in Wilton has a car, a figure well below the New South Wales average. Most households are well-equipped, with 52.2% owning two vehicles and another 33.7% owning three or more.

1.0% ▼ -89.9%

Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 10.4%
  • 2016: 4.8%
  • 2021: 1.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Wilton, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 3 vehicles is next at 20%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Half of the workforce drives to work, while 30.4% work from home, which is well above the national figure. Public transport is rarely used, with only 0.2% of workers commuting by train or bus.

30.4% ▲ +761.7%

Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.5%
  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 2021: 30.4%

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

0.2% ▼ -72.1%

Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.7%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 0.2%

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 Wilton, Car (driver) is the majority at 61%; Worked at home is next at 36%.

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 Wilton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115160/wilton/topic/transport