0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Merriwagga · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Merriwagga
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of working residents in Merriwagga drive themselves to work, reflecting a total reliance on cars in this area. Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national and state figures for households without a car.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal here, with no homes lacking a vehicle. About 31% of households own three vehicles, and another 17.8% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Merriwagga, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 33%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 2 vehicles (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, used by 47.5% of people. While 16.4% of the workforce works from home, this is well below the national figure.
16.4% ▼ -46.1%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Merriwagga, leaving it far below the New South Wales average for transit access.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
0.0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
More for Merriwagga
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Merriwagga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12597/merriwagga/topic/transport