Wapengo · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wapengo

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

Wapengo stands out among similar areas for its high rate of people working from home and total reliance on private cars. Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the New South Wales average.

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📍 Wapengo, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No home in Wapengo is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Nearly half of all households own two vehicles, while about 24% have three.

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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 Wapengo, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (23%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 56.3% of residents. Around 21.9% of the workforce works from home, a figure that is about the same as the national average but higher than most similar areas.

21.9%

Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 10.0%
  • 2021: 21.9%

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 Wapengo, Car (driver) is the majority at 64%; Worked at home is next at 25%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Wapengo. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the New South Wales figure, leaving residents with no local transit options.

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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 Wapengo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14157/wapengo/topic/transport