Wallendbeen · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wallendbeen

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Car ownership has remained essential in Wallendbeen, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars is a defining feature of the area, with 41.7% of households owning two vehicles and 25.2% owning three.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in the area lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 9.2%. Most households are well-equipped for travel, with 9.6% owning four or more vehicles.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Wallendbeen, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 55.2% of residents, while 19.4% work from home. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0% for home-based work.

19.4% ▲ +0.2%

Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 19.4%
  • 2016: 17.1%
  • 2021: 19.4%

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.

How people get to work

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In Wallendbeen, Car (driver) is the majority at 67%; Worked at home is next at 23%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is provided entirely by bus, with 8 routes serving the area. However, the 113.7 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average of 1,313.6.

3.34

Higher than 71% 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).

113.7

Higher than 70% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to a transport stop is a significant challenge here, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 52 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas.

52

Higher than 81% 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 Wallendbeen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14131/wallendbeen/topic/transport