1.2% ▼ -73.5%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wollongbar · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people are working from home in Wollongbar than they were in 2011. This shift is part of a broader trend where cars have become even more essential, with very few households now living without a vehicle. The area relies heavily on private transport for daily travel.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Wollongbar has a car, with only 1.2% of households lacking one—a figure that is well below the national level and has fallen since 2011. Most homes own two vehicles, while 12.9% have three.
1.2% ▼ -73.5%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Wollongbar, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
How people travel to work.
Most workers drive themselves to work (66.3%), and 12.7% now work from home, which is a rise of 8.4 percentage points since 2011. Public transport use is very low, with only 0.6% of people catching a bus.
12.7% ▲ +197.4%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▲ —
Higher than 70% 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 Wollongbar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115162/wollongbar/topic/transport