Walkerville · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Walkerville

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

A total reliance on cars defines transport in Walkerville, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This is a remote area with no public transport options, and it takes about two and a half hours to drive to the city.

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📍 Walkerville, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here owns at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national and state figures for carless households. Nearly half of all homes have two vehicles.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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Walkerville splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (49%) and 1 vehicle (44%), with 3 vehicles at 7%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one uses public transport to get to work, but 25.5% of people work from home, which is well above the Australian figure of 21%. The rest mostly drive, either as the driver or passenger.

25.5% ▲ +27.7%

Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 20.0%
  • 2016: 32.4%
  • 2021: 25.5%

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.

How people get to work

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In Walkerville, Car (driver) is the majority at 54%; Worked at home is next at 31%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means weekly departures and access are far below the Victorian average.

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 limited to private travel, with a 150-minute drive time to the city, among the highest for similar areas.

150

Higher than 90% 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 Walkerville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22653/walkerville/topic/transport