Woodleigh · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Woodleigh

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

Almost every household in Woodleigh owns a car, making it stand out compared to state and national figures. This reliance on private vehicles is a defining feature of the area, where there are no public transport stops or routes available for residents.

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📍 Woodleigh, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Not a single home in Woodleigh is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.6% state average. More than half of all households own three or more vehicles.

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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Woodleigh splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (31%) and 2 vehicles (29%), with 1 vehicle at 24%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one uses public transport to get to work, though 20.8% of the workforce works from home. This is about the same as the national figure, while 50% of workers drive themselves to their jobs.

20.8%

Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 26.9%
  • 2021: 20.8%

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 Woodleigh, Car (driver) is the majority at 53%; Walked is next at 24%.

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 Victorian average of 1,267.9.

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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 typical drive to the city takes 74 minutes. Because there is no local transit, the walk to the nearest stop is 71 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

71

Higher than 91% 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.

74

Higher than 53% 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 Woodleigh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22839/woodleigh/topic/transport