Wurdong Heights · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wurdong Heights

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

Almost every household in Wurdong Heights owns a car, placing it among the most vehicle-reliant areas of its kind. With no public transport routes or stops available, residents depend entirely on private vehicles to get around.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is exceptionally high here, with 0.0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have multiple cars, and 25.9% own four or more.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Wurdong Heights, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 4 or more (26%) and 3 vehicles (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, as 66.1% are drivers and 5.0% are passengers. Very few people work from home at 6.9%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.

6.9% ▲ +117.9%

Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.2%
  • 2016: 2.7%
  • 2021: 6.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.6%
  • 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 Wurdong Heights, Car (driver) is the majority at 83%; Worked at home is next at 9%.

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, a figure far below the Queensland average of 721.

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.

Getting to a transport stop is difficult for residents, with a typical walk of 43 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas.

43

Higher than 75% 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.

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 Wurdong Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33176/wurdong-heights/topic/transport