5.9% —
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Warrnambool · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Two-thirds of workers in Warrnambool drive themselves to work, reflecting a strong reliance on cars. While most homes have at least one vehicle, the area sees very low use of public transport for commuting compared to the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own one or two cars, with 38.7% having two and 38.6% having one. Only 5.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
5.9% —
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Warrnambool splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across the state, at just 9.2%. Similarly, public transport use is very low, with only 0.5% of workers using it, which is a little below the national and state figures.
9.2% —
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% —
Higher than 68% 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 Warrnambool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL212009/warrnambool/topic/transport