Wandsworth · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wandsworth

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

Nearly 46% of people in Wandsworth work from home, a figure far above the national average. This reliance on home-based work is consistent with the area's complete lack of public transport and a very high level of car ownership. Most households here own multiple vehicles to get around.

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📍 Wandsworth, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Wandsworth has a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. In fact, 30% of households own four or more vehicles.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Wandsworth, the largest group is 4 or more at 36%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and 1 vehicle (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is the most common way to earn a living here at 45.9%, far above the Australian figure of 21.0%. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work.

45.9%

Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 35.8%
  • 2021: 45.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Wandsworth, Worked at home is the majority at 70%; Car (driver) is next at 30%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Wandsworth. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the New South Wales figure.

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Lower than 99% 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).

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Lower than 99% 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wandsworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14149/wandsworth/topic/transport