0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Waaia · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Waaia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Waaia now has at least one motor vehicle, marking a total reliance on private transport. This trend is far more pronounced than in the rest of Victoria, where most households own multiple cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 85% of homes owning two or more vehicles. This explains why 0% of households are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Victorian average of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Waaia, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 35%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 4 or more (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 64.5% of residents. While 17.7% work from home, this is well below the national figure of 21.0%, and no one in the area commutes using public transport.
17.7% ▲ +5.2%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 17.7%
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.
Public transport is non-existent in Waaia, with zero stops or routes available. This puts the area far below the state average for transport access and departures per person.
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).
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 Waaia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22639/waaia/topic/transport