2.4% —
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wickham · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people use public transport to get to work in Wickham than in the rest of the country. Most households here own multiple cars, yet very few residents work from home, with only 0.7% doing so.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes in Wickham go without a car, with only 2.4% having no vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Almost half of all households own two vehicles.
2.4% —
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Wickham, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
How people travel to work.
Public transport use is among the highest for similar areas at 9.3%, well above the Western Australian figure of 4.7%. This contrasts with working from home, which is far below the national rate at just 0.7%.
0.7% —
Lower than 97% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
9.3% —
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wickham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515037/wickham/topic/transport