4.7% ▼ -22.6%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Warburton · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Warburton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A stark gap in public transport use defines Warburton, where almost no one uses transit to commute despite the area having a high number of stops. Most residents rely on their own cars or work from home, with 23.6% of the workforce choosing the latter.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of all households have one car, and 35.4% have two. Only 4.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Warburton, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 54.1% of residents. Very few people use public transport for their commute at 0.5%, which is a little below the state and national figures.
23.6% ▲ +263.0%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 23.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -81.7%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
Warburton has 12 public transport stops, which is more than about 83% of similar areas. However, these bus services are not very effective, as zero people can reach others within 45 minutes using transit.
12
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.94
Higher than 81% 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).
796.0
Higher than 84% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes typically 82 minutes to drive from the area to the city, a travel time that is around the middle for its level.
82
Higher than 58% 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 Warburton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22689/warburton/topic/transport