3.2% ▲ +19.4%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wooloweyah · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wooloweyah
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership remains a mainstay in Wooloweyah, where more than half of all homes now have two vehicles. While the area has more transport stops per person than many similar places, very few residents use these services to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 51% owning two vehicles and 19.1% owning three. Only 3.2% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wooloweyah, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work for 66.5% of residents. Very few people work from home at 12.9%, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 31%, and no one uses public transport for their commute.
12.9% ▲ +724.3%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 12.9%
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.
Wooloweyah has 4.77 transport stops per 1,000 people, which is much higher than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure, with the only available service being the bus.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.77
Higher than 77% 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).
248.2
Higher than 74% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wooloweyah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14429/wooloweyah/topic/transport