2.0% ▼ -16.0%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Warriewood · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Warriewood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has become a defining feature of Warriewood, with 38.9% of residents doing so. This is far above the national figure of 21%. While car use remains high, the area has an extensive bus network that makes reaching public transport stops very quick for most people.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Warriewood has a car, and 45.2% have two. Only 2% of households live without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Warriewood, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Remote work is very common here, with 38.9% of people working from home—a figure well above the state average. Only 1.4% of workers use public transport, which is a little below the national figure of 3.1%.
38.9% ▲ +463.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 38.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▼ -80.3%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 1.4%
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.
The area is served by 8 bus routes and 44 stops, with 1,836 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is well above the state average. However, it takes 85 minutes to reach the city by transit, one of the longest times for similar areas.
44
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.25
Higher than 78% 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).
1,836.0
Higher than 91% 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).
8
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
25,508
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
57,304
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
85
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the nearest transport stop is very easy, taking only 1 minute for most people, which is much lower than most areas. The drive time to the city is 27 minutes, also much lower than in similar places.
1
Lower than 99% 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.
27
Lower than 77% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Warriewood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14191/warriewood/topic/transport