4.1% ▼ -23.9%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wallacia · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wallacia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes lack a car in Wallacia than in most other areas. This is a heavily car-dependent community where 44.3% of workers drive themselves to work and almost no one uses public transport to commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 4.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 9.2%. Most households are well-equipped, with 33.5% owning two vehicles and 22.1% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wallacia, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 33%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 4 or more (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 27.8%, which is well above the national figure. In contrast, only 0.4% of the workforce uses public transport to get to work, which is a little below the state average.
27.8% ▲ +261.7%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 27.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -81.7%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
Wallacia has 19 public transport stops, far more than the state average per 1,000 people. However, these are all buses, and the number of weekly departures is well below the New South Wales figure.
19
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.
11.10
Higher than 88% 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).
816.5
Higher than 84% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is 48 minutes, which is lower than most similar areas. Residents also enjoy some of the shortest walks to the nearest transport stop in the region.
0
Lower than 99% 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.
48
Lower than 63% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Wallacia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14119/wallacia/topic/transport