33.1% ▲ +1318.1%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 33.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wilcannia · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Wilcannia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far higher share of homes lack a car than in the rest of the state, with 33.1% of Wilcannia households without a motor vehicle. This reflects a significant shift for the town, as this figure has risen by 31 percentage points since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About a third of homes have no car, which is far above the 9.2% figure for New South Wales. For those who do own vehicles, nearly half of all households have just one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wilcannia, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 49%, followed by No vehicle (34%) and 2 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is a common choice here, with 19.8% of workers doing so, while 8.3% work from home. No one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.
8.3% ▲ +294.8%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Wilcannia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121120/wilcannia/topic/transport