55.4% ▼ -32.9%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 82.6%
- 2016: 56.3%
- 2021: 55.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wugular (Beswick) · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of households in Wugular (Beswick) now have a car, marking a big shift since 2011. While 55.4% of homes still have no motor vehicle, this is a significant drop from 82.6% a decade ago. This change is happening in a place where many people still rely on walking or public transport to get to work.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The proportion of homes without a car is far above the Northern Territory figure of 11.1% and the national figure of 7.4%. Most households here have either no vehicle at 55.4% or just one at 26.5%.
55.4% ▼ -32.9%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Wugular (Beswick), No vehicle is the majority at 60%; 1 vehicle is next at 29%.
How people travel to work.
A high number of people walk to work (44.2%), and 11.7% use public transport, which is well above the national figure of 3.1%. No one in the area works from home, a figure far below the 21% seen across Australia.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
11.7% ▲ —
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 Wugular (Beswick) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721015/wugular/topic/transport