Warral · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Warral

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

Not a single home in Warral is without a motor vehicle. This makes it a place where cars are essential, with most households owning multiple vehicles to get around. While public transport exists, it is rarely used for the daily commute.

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📍 Warral, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 42.1% of homes having two vehicles and a further 25% owning four or more. This is much lower than the 9.2% of New South Wales homes that have no motor vehicle.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 3.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Warral, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 4 or more (25%) and 3 vehicles (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Getting to work relies heavily on cars, as 57.1% of people drive. Working from home is less common here than in the rest of the country, at 16.4% compared to the national figure of 21%.

16.4% ▲ +249.0%

Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.7%
  • 2016: 7.5%
  • 2021: 16.4%

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 Warral, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Worked at home is next at 20%.

Public transport access

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

The area has 6.74 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 5.27. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state average.

6.74

Higher than 84% 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).

62.9

Higher than 64% 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.

The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 16 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

16

Higher 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 Warral [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14181/warral/topic/transport