Wongaling Beach · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Wongaling Beach

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Far fewer households live without a car in Wongaling Beach compared to the national figure. Most residents rely on private vehicles to get around, though more people have started working from home in recent years.

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📍 Wongaling Beach, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 3.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Australian figure of 7.4%. The vast majority of households own at least one car, with 43.1% owning one and 39.4% owning two.

3.7% ▼ -41.9%

Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.4%
  • 2016: 6.7%
  • 2021: 3.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Wongaling Beach splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (43%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 12.6% of people work from home, a figure that rose 5.9 points since 2011. While 59.4% drive to work, the 4.7% who use public transport is a little above the Queensland and Australian figures.

12.6% ▲ +89.2%

Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.6%
  • 2016: 8.3%
  • 2021: 12.6%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

4.7% ▲ +212.0%

Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.5%
  • 2016: 3.9%
  • 2021: 4.7%

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.

How people get to work

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In Wongaling Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 70%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

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 Wongaling Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315103/wongaling-beach/topic/transport