Windellama · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Windellama

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

A drive time of 136 minutes to the city makes Windellama much more remote than most areas. This is a place where cars are essential, and almost every household relies on them to get around.

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📍 Windellama, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Windellama has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. Most households are well-equipped, with 38.1% owning two vehicles and 17.7% owning four or more.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Windellama, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 1 vehicle (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 61.6% of residents. While 18.3% work from home, this is far below the New South Wales figure, and no one here commutes using public transport.

18.3% ▲ +44.9%

Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 12.6%
  • 2016: 12.1%
  • 2021: 18.3%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 2.3%
  • 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 Windellama, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This means the number of weekly departures and stops per 1,000 people is far below the state average.

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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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is almost entirely dependent on private cars, given the very long drive time to the city compared to most other areas.

136

Higher than 87% 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 Windellama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14336/windellama/topic/transport