Werneth · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Werneth

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

Every single home in Werneth has at least two motor vehicles, reflecting a total reliance on cars for daily life. This is a place where most people work from home or drive, as there are no public transport options available.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 88% of homes owning three or more vehicles. No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

Motor vehicles per home

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Werneth splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (36%), with 4 or more at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 38.2% of the workforce doing so, which is far above the national figure of 21%. No one uses public transport to get to work.

38.2% —

Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 42.4%
  • 2021: 38.2%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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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Werneth splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (50%) and Worked at home (50%).

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in Werneth, with zero routes or stops available. This leaves the area far below the Victorian average for service access.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 105 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.

105

Higher than 72% 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 Werneth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22748/werneth/topic/transport