7.0% ▼ -39.5%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Worrowing Heights · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Worrowing Heights
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A staggering 37.5% of workers in Worrowing Heights work from home, far exceeding the national figure. This reliance on home-based work is a defining feature for the area, which lacks any public transport options for commuters.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one car, though 7% of households have no motor vehicle at all, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Worrowing Heights, 1 vehicle is the majority at 72%; 2 vehicles is next at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work. Instead, the usual commute involves driving, which helps explain why so many people — 37.5% — work from home, well above the Australian average of 21%.
37.5% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 37.5%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops and zero routes. This is far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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.
Getting into the city is a long trip, with drive times among the highest for similar areas at 160 minutes.
20
Higher than 59% 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.
160
Higher than 92% 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 Worrowing Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14442/worrowing-heights/topic/transport