0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wallarobba · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wallarobba
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 136-minute drive to the city makes Wallarobba a very remote location. Reliance on cars is almost total here, as every single home in the area owns at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every household has a car, which is well below the national figure where 7.4% of homes have none. Most families have multiple vehicles, with 33.8% owning two and 19.1% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wallarobba, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 1 vehicle (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nobody here commutes by public transport, which is well below the Australian average of 3.1%. Most people drive to work, though 25% work from home, a figure well above the national average.
25.0% ▲ +178.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
While the area has 11.49 stops per 1,000 people—far above the state figure—actual service is low. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales average, with trains making up 96.8% of the routes.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
11.49
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).
356.3
Higher than 76% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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 stop is relatively short, taking about 5 minutes. However, the area is very far from the city, with a typical drive time of 136 minutes.
5
Lower than 68% 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.
136
Higher than 87% 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 Wallarobba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14129/wallarobba/topic/transport