Wimbledon Heights · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wimbledon Heights

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

Zero people use public transport to get to work in Wimbledon Heights. This small area relies almost entirely on cars for travel, with very few residents working from home compared to the rest of the state.

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📍 Wimbledon Heights, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home has a car, and 35.2% of households own two vehicles. Only 3.0% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.

3.0% ▲ +44.4%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.1%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Wimbledon Heights, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (10%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 60.2% as the driver. Only 10.8% of residents work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.

10.8% ▲ +308.6%

Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 3.0%
  • 2021: 10.8%

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.

How people get to work

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In Wimbledon Heights, Car (driver) is the majority at 82%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

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. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 0.0, which is far below the Victorian figure.

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.

It takes about 95 minutes to drive to the city from here. For those needing a stop, the walk to the nearest one takes around 8 minutes.

8

Lower than 57% 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.

95

Higher than 66% 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 Wimbledon Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22801/wimbledon-heights/topic/transport