Wermatong · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wermatong

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

Nearly half of the workforce in Wermatong works from home, making it one of the most remote-work-heavy areas at this level. With no local public transport options, residents rely almost entirely on cars or their own homes to get through the work day.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 1 vehicle at 50%, ahead of 3 vehicles (43%).

Motor vehicles per home

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Wermatong splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (25%), with 4 or more at 25%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 47.6% of people work from home, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 31.0%. Those who do travel mostly drive, with 61.9% as drivers and 23.8% as passengers, while no one uses public transport to get to work.

47.6%

Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 12.0%
  • 2021: 47.6%

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 Wermatong, the largest group is Car (driver) at 46%, followed by Worked at home (36%) and Car (passenger) (18%).

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Wermatong, leaving the area with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people. This is far below the state figure of 1,313.6.

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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).

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 Wermatong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14248/wermatong/topic/transport