Wartook · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wartook

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

Every single home in Wartook has a motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the national average. The area relies almost entirely on private transport for travel, as there are no public transport options available for residents.

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📍 Wartook, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households keep two cars, with 48.5% of homes owning two and 36.4% owning one. This high level of ownership means 0.0% of homes are without a vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Wartook, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Half of the workforce drives to work and 18.2% work from home, which is a little below the Australian figure of 21.0%. No one here uses public transport to commute, while 13.6% of workers walk.

18.2% ▼ -20.3%

Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 22.8%
  • 2016: 14.3%
  • 2021: 18.2%

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 Wartook, Car (driver) is the majority at 61%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport routes or stops in Wartook. This puts the area far below the Victorian average for service frequency and access, with zero 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wartook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22713/wartook/topic/transport