Waverly · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Waverly

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

Waverly stands out among similar areas for its high rates of working from home and a total reliance on private cars. Almost every household owns a vehicle, and there is no public transport available in the area.

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📍 Waverly, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, with 0.0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%, and more than half of households own two vehicles.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Waverly, 2 vehicles is the majority at 62%; 4 or more is next at 24%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Private cars are the primary way to travel, with 49% of workers driving and 12.2% walking. Another 26.5% work from home, which is much higher than most similar areas.

26.5%

Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 25.9%
  • 2021: 26.5%

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

0.0%

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 Waverly, Car (driver) is the majority at 56%; Worked at home is next at 30%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in Waverly, with zero stops and routes. This puts the area far below the New South Wales average for service access.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Waverly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14218/waverly/topic/transport