7.0% —
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wangaratta · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Wangaratta
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Heavy reliance on cars shapes daily life in Wangaratta, where most people drive themselves to work. While the majority of households own multiple vehicles, about 7% of homes have no motor vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 40% of homes have one vehicle and 37.5% have two. The number of households without a car rose to 7% in 2021, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wangaratta splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant choice, with 66.1% of workers as the main driver. Very few people use public transport at 0.2%, a figure that fell since 2016, while those working from home at 8% are far below the national figure.
8.0% —
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% —
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Wangaratta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213016/wangaratta/topic/transport