2.9% ▼ -14.1%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wallaga Lake · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wallaga Lake
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on private cars remains the dominant way to get around Wallaga Lake, where only 2.9% of homes have no motor vehicle. This makes it far more car-dependent than the New South Wales average of 9.2%. Most residents rely on their own transport to navigate the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every household owns a car, with 44.2% having one vehicle and 41.7% having two. Only 2.9% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wallaga Lake splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (45%) and 2 vehicles (43%), with 3 vehicles at 7%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Not a single person here commutes by public transport, and only 15.6% work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%. Most workers drive themselves to work, accounting for 57.8% of trips.
15.6% ▲ +8.1%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 15.6%
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.
Public transport is very limited, with just one bus route and one stop serving the area. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure, sitting at only 17.0.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.70
Higher than 64% 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).
17.0
Higher than 59% 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 10 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
10
Lower than 54% 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.
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 Wallaga Lake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14120/wallaga-lake/topic/transport