Wylies Flat · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wylies Flat

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

Far fewer homes in Wylies Flat lack a car compared to the national figure, with 0% of households without a vehicle. This car-dependent area sees the vast majority of residents relying on private transport to get around.

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📍 Wylies Flat, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own multiple cars, with 39.1% having four or more vehicles. This is well below the 7.4% of Australian homes that have no motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Wylies Flat splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (33%) and 1 vehicle (30%), with 2 vehicles at 26%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nearly 68% of workers drive themselves to work, while 17.9% work from home. This work-from-home rate is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%.

17.9%

Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 10.3%
  • 2021: 17.9%

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 Wylies Flat, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 21%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This is far below the state average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is slow and difficult, with a 134-minute drive to the city. A walk to the nearest transport stop takes 74 minutes, which is among the highest times for similar areas.

74

Higher than 93% 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.

134

Higher than 87% 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 Wylies Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14459/wylies-flat/topic/transport