10.7% ▼ -19.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wendouree · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wendouree
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving remains the dominant way to get around Wendouree, though a significant number of households live without a car. This is a car-reliant area where nearly 67% of workers drive themselves to work, despite having a high level of public transport infrastructure compared to similar places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 10.7% of homes in Wendouree have no motor vehicle, which is well above the Australian figure of 7.4%. Most households have one or two cars, with 46.3% owning just one vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wendouree, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and No vehicle (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here at 8.5%, a figure far below the 25.7% seen across Victoria. Only 1.1% of residents commute using public transport, which is a little below the national average.
8.5% ▲ +468.9%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▼ -45.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 equipped with 95 public transport stops and 11 routes. This provides 9.16 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Victorian average of 4.41.
95
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.16
Higher than 87% 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).
1,747.4
Higher than 90% 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).
11
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 8 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop. The drive time to the city is 74 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this type.
8
Lower than 57% 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.
74
Higher than 53% 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).
More for Wendouree
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wendouree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22745/wendouree/topic/transport