7.5% —
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wagin · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Wagin
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Wagin compared to the rest of the country. Most residents rely on cars to get around, though an increasing number of households now have no motor vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.5% of households in Wagin have no motor vehicle, which is a little above the Western Australian figure and has risen since 2016. For those who do own cars, the most common setup is having two vehicles, seen in 36.8% of homes.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wagin splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here at 2.7%, a figure far below the national average. While 65.8% of workers drive themselves to work, the proportion using public transport has fallen sharply since 2016 to just 2.7%.
2.7% —
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.7% —
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 2.7%
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.
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 Wagin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515035/wagin/topic/transport