Wemen · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wemen

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

Not a single home in Wemen lacks a motor vehicle. This makes the area much more car-dependent than the typical Victorian or Australian community, where roughly 7% of households have no car.

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📍 Wemen, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own multiple cars, with 43.2% having two and nearly a quarter owning four or more. This high level of ownership is reflected in the fact that 0.0% of homes are without a vehicle.

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 Wemen, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 4 or more (23%) and 3 vehicles (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Cars are the primary way people get to work, with 74.3% driving or riding as a passenger. Very few people work from home at 9.1%, which is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.

9.1% ▼ -23.4%

Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 11.9%
  • 2016: 11.1%
  • 2021: 9.1%

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 Wemen, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Car (passenger) is next at 17%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is nonexistent here, with zero stops and routes. This explains why 0.0% of the workforce uses public transport to commute, a figure far below the state and national averages.

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 Wemen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22744/wemen/topic/transport