Roads, transport & safety

Condition and satisfaction

Residents' rating of Council's performance on sealed local roads fell from 67 to 52 out of 100 between 2020–⁠21 and 2024–⁠25, while Council's own condition measure stayed between 97.5% and 99.2%.

• 52/100 Residents' rating of Council's performance on sealed local roads2024–25Equal highest of 10 regional cities, level with Warrnambool City
• 46/100 Regional-city median, Wodonga excluded2024–2559 in 2020–21
• −15 points Change in Wodonga's rating2020–21 to 2024–2567 → 52; the regional-city median moved −13 points, 59 → 46
• 98.1% Sealed local roads below Council's renewal intervention level2024–2599.1% in 2020–21

Each council sets its own renewal intervention level, so the condition measure compares Wodonga's roads with Wodonga's own standard and is not set against other cities.

SourceLocal Government Performance Reporting Framework — council results · Local Government Victoria · 2020–21 to 2024–25

Repair standards

Council must repair a pothole deeper than 50 mm and wider than 300 mm within 1 to 4 weeks, depending on the road; on the state's roads through Wodonga the depth that counts is 100 mm.

• 50 mm Depth a pothole must exceed before Council must repair it2025–2029 planWhen it is also wider than 300 mm
• 100 mm The same depth on a state road2026 planWhen it is also wider than 300 mm
• 1–4 weeks Time Council allows for the repair, link roads to access roads2025–2029 planAfter an inspection within 3 to 10 working days of a report
• 7 days Response period for such a pothole on a state road2026 planMelrose Drive and Lincoln Causeway are inspected weekly, Beechworth–Wodonga Road fortnightly

The state's seven days is a response period, which can mean warning signs or making the site safe before a permanent repair.

SourceRoad Management Plan 2025–2029 · Wodonga Council · 2025–2029

SourceRoad Management Plan 2026 · Department of Transport and Planning · 2026

SourceRoad Maintenance Category – Road List, version 2 · Department of Transport and Planning · 29 Feb 2024

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Road network

Council's register lists 574.0 km of road pavement, and 76.5% of it is access roads.

• 574.0 km Road pavement in Council's Register of Public Roads30 Jul 2025
• 438.9 km Access roads30 Jul 202576.5% of the pavement
• 1,479 Register entries30 Jul 20251,467 road names; a road listed in sections has an entry for each

Every length here is the register's pavement length; its separate total-length column adds up to 584.0 km.

SourceRegister of Public Roads · Wodonga Council · 30 Jul 2025

Costs and requests

Reconstructing a square metre of sealed road cost Council $72 in 2024–⁠25, up 94.6% in a year but still below the regional-city median of $138; resealing cost $8.

• $72/m² Cost of reconstructing sealed road2024–25Regional-city median $138, Wodonga excluded
• +94.6% Change in the reconstruction cost in one year2023–24 to 2024–25$37 → $72
• $8/m² Cost of resealing sealed road2024–25Regional-city median $9, Wodonga excluded
• 25.16 Requests about sealed roads, per 100 km of sealed road2024–2537.08 in 2023–24; regional-city median 55.85

Dollars are not adjusted for inflation, and the framework sets no good direction for these measures: a lower cost or fewer requests is not evidence of better roads.

SourceLocal Government Performance Reporting Framework — council results · Local Government Victoria · 2020–21 to 2024–25

Whether Council is renewing its assets, in Financial position

Serious crashes

Fatal and serious-injury crashes averaged 26.6 a year in 2020–⁠24, up from 21.0 in 2012–⁠16; per resident that rose 12.0%, and all injury crashes per resident fell 9.3%.

• 29 Fatal or serious-injury crashes202425 in 2025 to 27 Oct, a part year
• +26.7% Change in the yearly average of fatal or serious-injury crashes2012–16 to 2020–2421.0 → 26.6 a year
• +12.0% The same change per 10,000 residents2012–16 to 2020–245.5 → 6.1 a year
• −9.3% All injury crashes per 10,000 residents2012–16 to 2020–2417.1 → 15.5 a year

Population is not exposure: these rates are not road risk, which would need the vehicle-kilometres travelled, so no road is ranked as the most dangerous. Whether the state's definition of a serious injury changed during these years has not been established.

SourceVictoria road crash data · Department of Transport and Planning · Jan 2012 – Oct 2025

SourceRegional population — estimated resident population by local government area · Australian Bureau of Statistics · 2012–2024

Crash severity

35.1% of Wodonga's recorded injury crashes were fatal or serious, below Victoria's 37.6% and 7th highest of the 10 regional cities.

• 35.1% Recorded injury crashes that were fatal or seriousJan 2012 – Oct 2025319 of 910 crashes
• 37.6% VictoriaJan 2012 – Oct 202574,976 of 199,609 crashes
• 7th of 10 Wodonga among the regional cities, highest share firstJan 2012 – Oct 2025From 28.1% in Ballarat to 48.0% in Greater Geelong
• 2.4% Recorded injury crashes that were fatalJan 2012 – Oct 202522 of 910; Victoria 1.7%

This is severity, not risk: it shows how serious recorded crashes were, not how likely a crash was, and Wodonga's fatal share rests on 22 crashes.

SourceVictoria road crash data · Department of Transport and Planning · Jan 2012 – Oct 2025

People involved

2,066 people were involved in Wodonga's recorded injury crashes; motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians were 15.0% of them but 32.0% of the 378 people killed or seriously injured.

• 2,066 People involved in recorded injury crashesJan 2012 – Oct 202525 killed, 353 seriously injured, 859 with other injuries, 829 not injured
• 378 Killed or seriously injuredJan 2012 – Oct 202518.3% of everyone involved
• 310 Motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestriansJan 2012 – Oct 202515.0% of everyone involved
• 121 Of the 378 killed or seriously injuredJan 2012 – Oct 202532.0% were motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians

These counts describe who was in the recorded crashes, not how risky each way of travelling is, which would need to know how far each group travels.

SourceVictoria road crash data · Department of Transport and Planning · Jan 2012 – Oct 2025

Bus services

In the timetable week of 29 September 2025, buses were scheduled to leave Wodonga's 111 stops 1,556 times on an average weekday, 561 times on Saturday and not at all on Sunday.

• 1,556 Scheduled stop-departures on an average weekday29 Sep – 5 Oct 20251,548 to 1,560 each weekday; 8,339 across the week
• 561 Scheduled stop-departures on Saturday29 Sep – 5 Oct 202536% of an average weekday; 65 of 111 stops served
• 0 Scheduled stop-departures on Sunday29 Sep – 5 Oct 2025None of the 111 stops served
• 19 Timetabled routes serving Wodonga's stops29 Sep – 5 Oct 202514 run by Dysons Wodonga

A stop-departure is one timetabled service leaving one stop, so a single bus trip counts at every stop it serves; services published by New South Wales are not in this Victorian timetable.

SourceRegional bus stops and routes with scheduled departure counts · Department of Transport and Planning · 29 Sep – 5 Oct 2025