6.0% ▼ -22.8%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Warrnambool · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Warrnambool
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on cars remains the dominant way to travel in Warrnambool, where 66.2% of workers drive themselves to work. While the area has a high number of public transport stops, very few people actually use them for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households keep one or two cars, though 6.0% of homes have no motor vehicle. This lack of a car is much higher than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Warrnambool splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Victoria or Australia, with only 9.3% doing so. Just 0.5% of the workforce uses public transport to get to work.
9.3% ▲ +249.6%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -37.7%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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.
Warrnambool has 168 public transport stops and 16 routes, which is among the largest number of this kind. However, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Victorian figure.
168
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.37
Higher than 79% 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).
678.8
Higher than 82% 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).
16
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to a nearby stop is very easy for residents, with a typical walking time of just one minute, which is much lower than in most areas.
1
Lower than 99% 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.
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 Warrnambool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22710/warrnambool/topic/transport