4.3% ▼ -58.7%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wyalong · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Wyalong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 60% of workers in Wyalong drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While car use is high, the town has seen a notable increase in people using public transport to commute. Most households here own several vehicles, and far fewer homes are without a car compared to the state average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 4.3% of homes in Wyalong have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average and has fallen since 2011. Most households are well-equipped, with 41.2% owning two vehicles and 28.3% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wyalong, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work has risen to 6.8%, which is well above the national figure of 3.1%. In contrast, only 6.4% of people work from home, a rate far below the New South Wales average of 31%.
6.4% ▲ +6.0%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.8% ▲ —
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 6.8%
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 Wyalong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122155/wyalong/topic/transport