3.6% ▼ -39.6%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wongan Hills · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Wongan Hills
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Wongan Hills compared to the rest of the country. While 21% of Australians work from home, only 5.5% do here, reflecting a local workforce that mostly needs to be on-site. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes lack a car, with only 3.6% having none, a figure well below the national average. Ownership is high, as roughly 40% of households have two vehicles and 15.2% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wongan Hills splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 64.1% of people, while 7.3% walk. Only 1.2% use public transport, which is much higher than in most similar areas despite being well below the state figure.
5.5% ▲ +19.1%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -16.4%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Wongan Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521050/wongan-hills/topic/transport