Wirrimah · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wirrimah

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

A massive gap in public transport access separates Wirrimah from the rest of the state. Every single home here has a motor vehicle, making cars the essential way to get around in this rural area.

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📍 Wirrimah, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are everywhere in Wirrimah, with half of all homes owning two vehicles and 18.2% owning four or more. This means 0% of households are without a car, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Wirrimah, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 85.7% of residents. While 19% of people work from home, this is still far below the New South Wales rate of 31%.

19.0%

Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 11.5%
  • 2021: 19.0%

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 Wirrimah, Car (driver) is the majority at 82%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. This leaves Wirrimah with 0 weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the state average 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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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wirrimah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14358/wirrimah/topic/transport