Wanora · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wanora

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

Zero homes without a car is a striking feature of Wanora, where vehicle ownership is much higher than the national figure. This is a car-dependent area where almost every household owns at least two vehicles to get around.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home here has a motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% of Australian homes that have none. Most households are well-equipped, with 50% owning two vehicles and another 17.8% owning four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.5%
  • 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 Wanora, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 4 or more (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common for 22% of residents, a figure well above the Queensland average. While no one uses public transport to get to work, 51.5% of the workforce commute by car as the driver.

22.0% ▲ +136.5%

Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 9.3%
  • 2016: 12.8%
  • 2021: 22.0%

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 Wanora, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Worked at home is next at 28%.

Public transport access

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

There are 15.27 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Queensland figure. However, these four bus stops provide very few departures, and no one can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes.

15.27

Higher than 90% 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).

244.3

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).

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 39 minutes, which is lower than most similar areas. A typical walk to the nearest transit stop takes about 13 minutes.

13

Higher than 50% 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.

39

Lower than 68% 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 Wanora [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32985/wanora/topic/transport