0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Woollamia · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Woollamia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 60% of people in Woollamia drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. While the area has a high number of transport stops, almost no one uses public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Woollamia has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales and national figures for households without a car. Most homes have two vehicles, though 13.4% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Woollamia, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nobody in Woollamia commutes by public transport, and the 14.1% who work from home is well below the national figure. Driving is the dominant choice, with 60.1% of workers being the driver.
14.1% ▲ +258.5%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Woollamia has 9.19 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the New South Wales average. However, weekly departures per person are far below the state figure, and all available services are buses.
6
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.19
Higher than 87% 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).
735.1
Higher than 83% 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).
2
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes much longer than most areas to drive to the city, with a typical trip lasting 127 minutes. A walk to the nearest transport stop takes around 18 minutes.
18
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
127
Higher than 85% 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 Woollamia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14423/woollamia/topic/transport