8.5% ▲ +196.4%
Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Wakefield · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Port Wakefield
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More homes in Port Wakefield (L) lack a motor vehicle than in most similar areas. While 8.5% of households have no car, the vast majority of the community relies heavily on driving to get around and to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The proportion of homes without a car has risen by 5.6 percentage points since 2011, reaching a level a little above the national figure. Most households own one or two vehicles, with 36.7% having one and 33.5% having two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Port Wakefield splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 69% of people commuting as a driver. Very few people work from home at 6.1%, and no one uses public transport, which is well below both the state and national figures.
6.1% ▲ +226.0%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Port Wakefield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421032/port-wakefield/topic/transport