1.7% —
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wallan · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Wallan
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is the primary way people move in Wallan, with 64.2% of workers commuting by car. This reliance on vehicles is clear, as very few households go without a car. While more people are now working from home, the area remains heavily car-dependent.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 1.7% of homes in Wallan have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. This is a significant drop from 2016, and most households now own two or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wallan, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose sharply to 15.4% since 2016, though this remains far below the Victorian figure. Public transport use is much higher than in similar areas, but still sits a little below the state and national averages.
15.4% —
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% —
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.1%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Wallan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213015/wallan/topic/transport