0.9% ▼ -48.0%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 0.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Waurn Ponds · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Waurn Ponds
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More public transport stops and services than most similar areas define Waurn Ponds. While the suburb is well-served by bus routes, the vast majority of residents still rely on their own cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 43.5% of homes owning two vehicles and 32.1% having three or more. Only 0.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Waurn Ponds, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 57.8% as the driver. Working from home is less common here than across the state, at 16.2% compared to Victoria's 25.7%.
16.2% ▲ +315.5%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.5% ▲ +32.9%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 2.5%
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.
The area is well connected by bus, with 19 different routes and 18 stops. This results in 1,511.5 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is a little above the Victorian average.
18
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.63
Higher than 72% 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).
1,511.5
Higher than 89% 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).
19
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.
It takes about 20 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop. The drive time to the city is 58 minutes, which is around the middle for its level.
20
Higher than 59% 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.
58
Lower than 57% 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 Waurn Ponds [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22730/waurn-ponds/topic/transport