Whorouly South · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Whorouly South

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

A massive gap in public transport access defines Whorouly South, where not a single resident uses transit to get to work. This is a car-dependent area where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle, far below the national figure of 7.4% for homes without a car.

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📍 Whorouly South, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, with 36.4% of homes owning three vehicles and 22.7% owning two. This explains why 0.0% of households are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Victorian average of 7.6%.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Whorouly South, the largest group is 3 vehicles at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and 1 vehicle (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 65.2% of residents. While 19.6% of people work from home, this is a little below the national figure of 21.0% and well below Victoria's 25.7%.

19.6%

Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 25.0%
  • 2021: 19.6%

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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In Whorouly South, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Worked at home is next at 21%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the state figure of 1,267.9.

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 Whorouly South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22779/whorouly-south/topic/transport