On the odd day that Jo Clendon works from home, she misses her commute.
“It gets my brain up and running by having some movement and some blood flow,” she says of the 35-minute trip by e-bike from her home in Lower Hutt to the Wellington CBD office where she works in IT four days a week.
Meanwhile, in greater Wellington, 53% of workers commuted by car, truck or van in 2023 – significantly down on the 2018 figure of 58% and the lowest proportion of any region.
In Auckland and Canterbury, 69% and 72% of commuters travelled to work by car, the statistics showed.
Some of the shift away from cars could be attributed to an increase in the proportion of people working from home (it doubled in Wellington from 9% to 19% and rose from 12% to 18% across Aotearoa).
