Wild Dog Valley · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wild Dog Valley

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

Far more people work from home in Wild Dog Valley than in most similar areas. This sparsely populated spot relies almost entirely on private cars for travel, with 0% of households lacking a motor vehicle.

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📍 Wild Dog Valley, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 90.5% of homes owning three or more vehicles. This is well below the Victorian and national figures for households without a car, which sit at 7.6% and 7.4% respectively.

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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Wild Dog Valley splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (37%) and 4 or more (33%), with 2 vehicles at 19%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About a third of the workforce works from home, which is far above the Australian figure of 21%. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work.

33.3%

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 27.3%
  • 2021: 33.3%

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 Wild Dog Valley, Car (driver) is the majority at 57%; Worked at home is next at 43%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes available, leaving the area far below the state 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 109 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.

109

Higher than 74% 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 Wild Dog Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22783/wild-dog-valley/topic/transport