2.5% ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Walpole · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Walpole
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Public transport use has completely disappeared in Walpole since 2011, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars. Most homes here own at least one vehicle, and almost half of the local workforce drives themselves to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% national figure. About half of all homes have one car, while 36.9% own two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Walpole, 1 vehicle is the majority at 51%; 2 vehicles is next at 37%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area now uses public transport to get to work, a figure well below the 3.1% national average. Walking is a common alternative at 14.3%, while 5.9% of people work from home.
5.9% ▼ -1.2%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 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 Walpole [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522061/walpole/topic/transport