1.1% ▲ +38.1%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wattle Ponds · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wattle Ponds
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 133-minute drive to the city makes Wattle Ponds a very remote area where cars are essential. Almost every home owns a motor vehicle, as there are no public transport options available within the locality.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here get by without a car, with only 1.1% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%, and most households own multiple cars, with 65.9% having two or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wattle Ponds, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 4 or more (23%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the primary way people get to work, as 0% of residents use public transport. Working from home is also uncommon here, at 10.6%, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
10.6% ▲ +353.8%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average of 1,313.6.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0.0
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around on foot is difficult, with the walk to the nearest stop taking 43 minutes. This is much higher than in most other similar areas.
43
Higher than 75% 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.
133
Higher than 86% 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)).
- 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 Wattle Ponds [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14211/wattle-ponds/topic/transport