Wandin East · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wandin East

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

Almost every home in Wandin East relies on a car, with 0% of households lacking a motor vehicle. This total dependence on driving is reflected in the lack of local public transport and the fact that no one commutes to work using transit.

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📍 Wandin East, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 29.3% of homes having two vehicles and another 27.9% owning four or more. This means Wandin East is well below the national and state figures for homes without a vehicle.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.9%
  • 2016: 6.7%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Wandin East splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 4 or more (31%), with 3 vehicles at 19%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nearly half of workers drive to work, while 23.4% work from home. The latter is a little above the Australian figure and higher than most similar areas, while 0% of residents use public transport to commute.

23.4% ▲ +74.5%

Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 13.4%
  • 2016: 16.1%
  • 2021: 23.4%

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: 1.3%
  • 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 Wandin East, Car (driver) is the majority at 60%; Worked at home is next at 30%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is virtually non-existent in the area, with 0 stops and 0 routes. This leaves the area far below the Victorian average for transport stops and weekly departures 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).

0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is challenging without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 48 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is 46 minutes.

48

Higher than 78% 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.

46

Lower than 64% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Wandin East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22672/wandin-east/topic/transport