Wirrinya · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wirrinya

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

Transport in Wirrinya has remained reliant on private cars and home offices over the last decade. Every single home in the area now owns a motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the national average. The local workforce is also notably flexible, with a high proportion of people working from home.

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📍 Wirrinya, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, with no homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households are well-equipped, with 53.3% owning two vehicles and 36.7% owning three.

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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 Wirrinya, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 1 vehicle (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common in Wirrinya, at 33.3%, which is far above the Australian figure of 21.0%. Most other residents drive themselves to work, while 6.3% walk and nobody uses public transport.

33.3%

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 16.3%
  • 2021: 33.3%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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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 Wirrinya, Car (driver) is the majority at 61%; Worked at home is next at 33%.

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 the number of weekly departures is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6 per 1,000 people.

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wirrinya [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14360/wirrinya/topic/transport