4.8% ▲ —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wildwood · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wildwood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 77-minute walk to the nearest stop defines the isolation of Wildwood, where residents rely almost entirely on private cars. With no public transport options available, the area is heavily dependent on road travel for all trips.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 30.2% of households owning four or more vehicles. Only 4.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wildwood, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 4 or more (28%) and 3 vehicles (23%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 57.6% of people commuting as drivers. This reliance on cars is reflected in the 0.0% who use public transport, and a work-from-home rate of 12.9%, which is far below the state figure of 25.7%.
12.9% ▲ +80.5%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. Consequently, the number of weekly departures and the number of people reachable by transit are both zero, which is far below the Victorian average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes a typical resident 32 minutes to drive to the city. However, walking to the nearest stop takes 77 minutes, which is among the highest times for any similar area.
77
Higher than 95% 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.
32
Lower 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Wildwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22784/wildwood/topic/transport