Wickliffe · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wickliffe

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

A tiny fraction of households in Wickliffe lack a car, making it one of the most vehicle-reliant areas in the region. While public transport stops are available, the area is marked by a high number of people working from home and a strong reliance on cars or walking to get to work.

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📍 Wickliffe, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian and national figures. Around 40% of households have two vehicles, and 21% own four or more.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Wickliffe, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 4 or more (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 32.8% of people doing so—a figure far above the national average. Others mostly rely on cars or walking, while no one uses public transport to get to work.

32.8%

Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 42.0%
  • 2021: 32.8%

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 Wickliffe, the largest group is Car (driver) at 43%, followed by Worked at home (36%) and Walked (21%).

Public transport access

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

Wickliffe has 4 public transport stops, which is more than 76% of similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Victorian average.

32.52

Higher 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).

243.9

Higher than 74% 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.

Getting to the nearest stop takes longer here than in most areas, with a typical walk of 40 minutes.

40

Higher than 74% 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.

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 Wickliffe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22781/wickliffe/topic/transport