5.0% ▼ -13.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Warrigal · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Warrigal
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 60% of working residents in Mount Warrigal drive themselves to work. While the area has more public transport stops than most similar places, very few people actually use them for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 40.4% owning two. Only 5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the New South Wales figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Warrigal, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is much less common here than in the rest of the state, at 15.4%. Only 1.3% of people commute by public transport, a figure that is a little below the national average.
15.4% ▲ +587.3%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▼ -28.1%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.3%
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.
Mount Warrigal has a high number of bus stops and routes compared to similar areas, with 28 stops in total. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
28
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.74
Higher than 80% 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).
602.3
Higher than 80% 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).
5
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The walk to the nearest transport stop is shorter than in most similar areas, taking about 6 minutes. The typical drive time to the city is 78 minutes.
6
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
78
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mount Warrigal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12812/mount-warrigal/topic/transport